100% this; unfortunately also often seeing junior devs called staff after job hopping for 3 or 4 years never really learning anything.
Junior job titles are nearly as much of a mess as interviewing them.
Particularly in recent hot topics like AI the reality is you want both experienced and less-experienced devs. Most AI teams I see actually lack AI experience and keep falling for the same issues (like quickly getting to 80% working and thinking just a bit more data to 99.9%)
In the Company I work, I constantly find architects, senior and chief architects, who come directly from the university, without any real world experience… sooo nice to work with them
Yarh, I thought about this a lot when recently our electric cargo bike passed 10.000 kilometers. It is used, almost exclusively, to bring our son to school, 5km away.
Junior job titles are nearly as much of a mess as interviewing them.
Particularly in recent hot topics like AI the reality is you want both experienced and less-experienced devs. Most AI teams I see actually lack AI experience and keep falling for the same issues (like quickly getting to 80% working and thinking just a bit more data to 99.9%)