These Junior Devs Just Don't Get It! - Dev Leader Weekly 110

TL; DR:

Stop the blame game
Timebox efforts and invite curiosity on reviews
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Empowering Junior Developers on Reviews

If you have juniors on your team, you may have run into this:

Pull requests piling up
Reviews slowing down
... and everyone quietly frustrated

Is it just because your code is too complex? Maybe not. Should we point the finger at the junior developers and blame them?

Definitely not.

If you have junior developers on the team, it's entirely possible they just haven't learned about a lot of the things that are showing up in your pull requests. Nobody's fault. No blame. No finger pointing.

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