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Hiring Devs - Why you should consider Juniors

Hiring Devs - Why you should consider Juniors

When it comes to developer maturity, I heard many tech recruiters and decision-makers saying: “We should only hire senior devs.” This may be justified in some situations, projects, or teams, but I do not accept this statement as a general premise. In this blog post, I want to highlight the benefits that juniors can bring to the team and encourage you to find and foster new talent actively.

Hiring Devs - The Seniority Paradox

Hiring Devs - The Seniority Paradox

In IT, there is a paradox when it comes to job titles. Somewhere along the way, the practice of linking job titles to a candidate’s (desired) experience became established in large parts of the market. This then created the now famous and omnipresent job titles like “Senior Software Engineer”, “Professional DevOps Engineer”, etc. In this blog post, I would like to explain the paradox around these designations and how I use them in the course of the talent search…