It's like this in a lot of companies. At FAANG you are probably more lucky because at least most juniors are smart. In general I don't know how to navigate this

It's like this in a lot of companies. At FAANG you are probably more lucky because at least most juniors are smart. In general I don't know how to navigate this well. You don't want to be the old guy that constantly dictates things to be done in old ways. But you also can't let them go completely wild with their ideas and have disaster strike later. Onboarding one or two new guys into a team is fine but teams with a majority of newbies are just difficult. A major problem I have seen in the last years is that the young guys seem to have a preference for super complex systems. Everything needs a http API, Kubernetes, Microservices, multiple repos and complex build pipelines even when a simple server with a database would be just fine.