Blaming junior engineers and interns is bad engineering culture. I'm sorry if that's the case you are experiencing. As for the stigma against junior engineers,

Blaming junior engineers and interns is bad engineering culture. I'm sorry if that's the case you are experiencing. As for the stigma against junior engineers, from my personal experience in mostly early start ups programming boot camps really poisoned the well. A lot of us were flooded with very poor candidates that had really flashy portfolios and a ton of marketing and generally some favorable contacts and vcs promoting them. Most of them were terrible, often with extremely little passion for their craft. There were obviously exceptions and I've worked with one that was phenomenal, but the whole schooling systems pitch to me was that it onboarded capable people that just needed an intro to the tech and systems, when in reality most were just folks with money trying to buy their way quickly into an industry that was desperate for more manpower.