Generally aren't these usually the more junior engineers who don't have any sense of responsibility and want to exercise some authority or senior engineers, the

Generally aren't these usually the more junior engineers who don't have any sense of responsibility and want to exercise some authority or senior engineers, the best days of their productivity now lie behind them? It's usually a symptom of a bad company culture to be honest when the people making hiring decisions feel the need to "spread" it around so as not to take the blame for those few bad hires that will inevitably happen. As engineers we all know that bugs happen and shrug, feel bad for a bit and move on. When someone else makes a bad hiring decision, these same engineers grab the pitchforks demanding to know why they weren't consulted. It's kind of silly when you think about it as human behavior is much more complex than software. Hiring is hard.