Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (News)

仅雇佣资深工程师正在扼杀企业(新闻)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

2025-09-30

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Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani announces Chrome DevTools MCP, GitHub lays out a roadmap to fend off npm attacks, Jerry Liu builds an app that generates a timeline of your day's activities, and Sean Goedecke attempts to define "good taste" in the context of software engineering.
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  • What up, nerds?

  • I'm Jared and this is Changedog News for the week of Monday, September 29th, 2025.

  • It's official, robots are invading Major League Baseball.

  • Starting with the 2026 season,

  • MLB will implement a challenge system for balls and strikes to quote usher in the era of robot umpiring.

  • Human umpires aren't going anywhere anytime soon, but the rioting is on the wall.

  • This makes me sad.

  • Sure, robots will make a higher percentage of correct calls,

  • but they'll also be able to throw harder, hit further, and run faster someday.

  • And that doesn't mean I want to watch them compete.

  • Oh well, let's get into this week's news.

  • Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies.

  • In the last three months, Andrew Churchill interviewed 134 engineers.

  • His main takeaway?

  • There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers that most companies won't even consider.

  • In this post, Andrew outlines why he loves working with juniors.

  • Fresh energy, unshackled by prior experience, loyalty, and more.

  • How to hire the right juniors, fill it for mindset, home assignments,

  • test with and without AI, etc. And how to make it work after the hire.

  • Invest in mentoring, be patient, measure right, etc. His call to action,