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Oh how I wish I had a legion of junior engineers. Or even a squad.

My company has an aversion to hiring. It's so expensive to hire people, you know! There are no young engineers to teach the ropes to. There are very few senior people do everything.

Needless to say nothing happens fast, good, or cheap. And we don't ship projects, they mostly just bob up and down in the harbor.



oh how i wish I had a single junior engineer.

my company hires like crazy for new things, but the maintenance of critical things are just the same humans who always take care of it.

and then we get asked to work on the new things too, and it's like, uhhhh...




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