Hiring Juniors

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Clear case for hiring and training juniors with concrete results: Culture Amp runs a 6‑month junior program that onboards and mentors new developers so they can ship, growing headcount to 10 juniors and hiring seven in a year. Practical effects include better documentation, diagrams that cut onboarding time, and slower, clearer communication that reduces mistakes. Interview process gives 7 pages of feedback per candidate on average. Program scales talent rather than chasing rare seniors and measurably improves team performance.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:52The Future
3. 5:48Hire Juniors
4. 6:22HIRING SENIOR DEVELOPER (PLZ)
5. 15:16Things get Documented
6. 17:29Communication is Explicit
7. 32:30FINDING Juniors
8. 36:15INTERVIEWING Juniors
9. 37:09Actionable Specific Kind
10. 39:05MENTORING Juniors
11. 40:39Pull Request REVIEWS
12. 41:10why are you doing this?
13. 41:46Feeling WELCOME
14. 44:43HIRING AND MENTORING JUNIOR DEVELOPERS

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