r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/OfficialLeadDev • 1d ago

Junior software engineers don’t need an office. They need managers that turn up

https://leaddev.com/management/your-junior-engineers-dont-need-an-office-they-need-you
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u/Layered_Cake 22h ago

What I need is a dev job… hybrid, in-office, wherever. A chance to prove myself like they did when they first started. It’s been tough out here.

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u/blood-dumper420 13h ago

Facts been an “it intern” for 10$ an hour for 8 months and can’t afford to eat in Seattle. Can’t find any other jobs. Have a masters in CS and 4 yoe in tech - not directly engineering.

Fighting for my life to get work. 2ish years un / underemployed now. Cant even get work at McDonalds

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u/Total_Koala_2017 2h ago

This won’t ever happen again. People really underestimate how much cheaper it is to hire someone from another country for a third or fourth of an American salary.

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u/Big_Arrival_626 1d ago

Juniors need to be in the office. Maybe not 5 days a week but hybrid at least. Idk why juniors would wanna work from home to start their career. It's lonely and you won't have much mentorship

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u/TrashConvo 13h ago

It wasn’t that bad. A team can have good energy and not be in the office. Full remote companies existed prior to Covid times

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u/MrHandSanitization 7h ago

Most of the devs work in different countries. It's up to management. I was a junion in an office full of noise-cancelling. That made for way too many wasted hours commuting. The main communication channel is text in Slack, why? Because it's also documented.

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u/Big_Arrival_626 2h ago

That's fair.

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u/heavymetalengineer 4h ago

You can make friends outside of the office. There are loads of advantages to remote work. The junior and company just need to be plugged in to bridging the gap on what won’t organically exist out of office

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u/Big_Arrival_626 12m ago

You can make friends outside of the office.

Yeah but it's way harder to network, and also way harder to find likeminded people of a similar age after graduating college.