Web Directions - Code Leaders - Hiring Juniors

This is a story about hiring juniors, why we should do it, and what things I've learned from hiring a bunch and mentoring them.

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1. Hiring Juniors @ryanbigg
2. HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS
3. Culture Amp Junior Engineering Program
4. Junior Engineering Program Seb Jasmine Rebecca Lauren Angel Julie Namibia Ramya Jaime Tiya Cohort #1
5. Me circa 2007
6. Junior Engineering Program Seb Jasmine Rebecca Lauren Angel Julie Namibia Ramya Jaime Tiya Cohort #1
8. Culture Amp Junior Engineering Program #2 Soonish™
9. THE RATIO™ 4 seniors 1 junior
10. wait but why?
11. why: Juniors make teams BETTER
12. the junior, the monolith & the microservice
13. why: Juniors make teams BETTER
14. HIRE AT LEAST ONE UNIOR
15. but now what?
16. ASSIGN A Mentor
17. Do Don’t How to treat a junior developer
18. PAIR up $%
19. Do Don’t How to treat a junior developer
20. It is ALWAYS OK to ask questions
21. WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
22. FEELING WELCOME
23. Project: this guy
25. HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS HIRE JUNIORS