The Fake Problem with Junior Developers

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Claim: juniors deliver tangible team value from day one — not just code but questions that catch bad architecture and fixability issues. Evidence: built websites and shipped apps to iOS and Google stores since 2015, survived three months of rejections, two and a half years of mobile work across Android Java Swift Unity, prevented a PR that would create twenty five memory cycles, and mentors turn mistakes into learning. Concrete metric: coding counts for one in five traits on hiring charts while communication and problem solving matter far more.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:29Disclaimer
3. 1:08Experience Has Value
4. 9:56What Makes a Good Developer
5. 22:07Berta Tips

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