--- title: "The Junior Engineer You Stopped Hiring, CodeGood" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-junior-engineer-you-stopped-hiring-codegood-tbpcir89a source_url: https://codegood.co/writing/the-junior-engineer-you-stopped-hiring.html type: article source: "CodeGood" published: 2026-06-14T11:48:33.372Z updated: 2026-06-14T11:48:57.475Z tags: ["career", "ai-coding", "company-culture"] reading_time: 11 upvotes: 39 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Junior Engineer You Stopped Hiring, CodeGood **[CodeGood](https://daily.dev/sources/codegood)** · 11 min read · 39 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Large tech companies have cut new-graduate hiring by more than half since 2019, replacing entry-level work with AI tools. The short-term savings are real but mask a structural problem: senior engineers are produced by juniors doing junior work, and that pipeline has a 6-8 year latency. Companies eliminating junior roles are collectively defunding the supply of future seniors, creating a collective-action failure that will drive senior compensation sharply higher. A minority of firms are instead retooling the apprenticeship with AI, compressing time-to-senior from years to months and treating junior hires as counter-cyclical investments in a market their competitors are abandoning. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@akkitto** · 4 upvotes > It's just logical. If no Junior gets a job today, there will be no Seniors, later. It's very simple... --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#company-culture](https://daily.dev/tags/company-culture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-junior-engineer-you-stopped-hiring-codegood-tbpcir89a)