The myth of junior developer risk and how to create a balanced engineering team

Lee Warrick wasn’t satisfied with the standard storyline regarding junior developers. A career-changing bootcamp graduate himself, Lee heard the same tired explanations over and over again about how hiring juniors was rife with expense, risks, and headaches that from his experience just weren’t true.

He started the Tech Jr podcast to support junior devs, along with a series of meetups where juniors could get together and share advice and approaches for their careers. Along the way Lee developed a compelling framework to help employers understand how to get high ROI out of recruiting, employing, and retaining junior developers. In this episode he sits down with Ledge to share the highlights.

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