Well, hiring only super experienced people in a niche talent pool feels arbitrarily difficult. Young devs can be just as good, and we all need to build experience somehow.

One rule of thumb for me is that the more young a developer we hire is, proportionally we also need to hire an equally senior. Ie we don't want a huge amount of developers lacking experience.

However if you have enough senior developers to mentor the young ones? Seems a net win for all involved, to me at least.

Lets be happy when someone says they're hiring juniors.

The poster sounds like someone who invests in people and doesn't rule them out based on years of experience on their resume. From all of the "where are the seniors?" threads I've seen, the industry could use more of that.

> Being young and cheap is a good quality, I suppose. Experience is overrated It's "overrated" until it isn't. And then you learn very, very expensive mistakes. Unfortunately it takes experience to learn why this viewpoint is nothing more than hubris.