The senior folks are sometimes cleaning up messes created by the junior folks.
The last 10 years it seems like junior developers have become less likely to own up to their mistakes and senior engineers have to track down the mistake and then pull in the junior engineer to discuss what the mistake was and what the fix needs to be. The Junior engineer didn't want to participate at all and thinks their productivity is being impacted because they just want to keep working on whatever new feature ticket they think represents productivity. The seniors are thinking their productivity is increased when everyone is in the office cause they can much more rapidly find the people responsible and pull them into an in person meeting and do a full interrupt on the people responsible for an issue.
It's like the juniors are too incentivized by completing new feature tickets versus generating positive customer impacts or something.
I've been at 3 companies in the past 11 years and seen this at all of them.
The senior folks are sometimes cleaning up messes created by the junior folks.
The last 10 years it seems like junior developers have become less likely to own up to their mistakes and senior engineers have to track down the mistake and then pull in the junior engineer to discuss what the mistake was and what the fix needs to be. The Junior engineer didn't want to participate at all and thinks their productivity is being impacted because they just want to keep working on whatever new feature ticket they think represents productivity. The seniors are thinking their productivity is increased when everyone is in the office cause they can much more rapidly find the people responsible and pull them into an in person meeting and do a full interrupt on the people responsible for an issue.
It's like the juniors are too incentivized by completing new feature tickets versus generating positive customer impacts or something.
I've been at 3 companies in the past 11 years and seen this at all of them.