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Thats a broad generalization and many niche codebases cannot be high quality and still have a drunk junior become productive with it in a week. People need to a
by kungito 5y ago
Thats a broad generalization and many niche codebases cannot be high quality and still have a drunk junior become productive with it in a week. People need to accept that it's ok to require for some teams to have discussions on a level which requires serious experience and education
- catlifeonmars 5y agoIndeed. A more nuanced interpretation of the question might be: “Can the most junior (or least tenured) engineer on my team understand the code in time to deliver the feature they’re working on?” To be fair, OP’s original phrasing is still a good rule of thumb. And nowhere does the OP imply it’s an absolute.