Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense! > "HN is the top 1%" + "this is the standard knowledge base and way of dealing with things in many place

Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense! > "HN is the top 1%" + "this is the standard knowledge base and way of dealing with things in many places, contrary to what working in big tech or reading HN might make you believe!" I'm in fact from Spain and now live in Japan, and I believe the practices in Spain would be as bad as Italy, and in Japan they are def worse (great at hardware, horrible at software), so I do understand a lot of what you are saying. FWIW, in Spain I've seen whole dev teams composed only of interns! > "we landed a big contract for one of the biggest gym companies in Italy, the UK and South Africa" + "we don't really have seniority in office" Maybe now that seems like you have the budget it's a good time to go to management and suggest to hire some senior devs who can mentor the rest into learning best practices? You can sell it like a reinvestment in the company to management if they want to take it as pure profit. If Italy is like Spain, many devs won't really even want to learn these things, but some will and then those will become seniors at some point.