Let me tell you my point of view. It is all about the company culture. There are cultures that breed stars, and that usually ends up being bad for the company.

Let me tell you my point of view. It is all about the company culture. There are cultures that breed stars, and that usually ends up being bad for the company. The company I am currently working at, has a flat structure, with everybody at the same level basically. We have a lot of real celebrities here, people who are really know for what they have done, and exceptionally brilliant. But the culture here is of knowledge share. People are open to share what they known. There is no real internal competition, the competition is focused externally. This has made our company grow faster. Junior developers are absorbed on entry, and they stop being Junior, and just become engineers. What I have experienced in companies where stars are allowed to breed, is that the competition is internal, which damages progress and direction. Such stars start looking to the outside as fast as they can they never really integrate into the company.