GitHub's CEO Thomas Dohmke emphasizes the importance of junior engineers, who bring fresh perspectives and energy to tech companies. In an interview with "The Pragmatic Engineer," he highlighted that young developers often have early exposure to AI, which is crucial as the role of software engineers evolves. Dohmke believes in maintaining a balance of experienced and novice engineers within teams to leverage both innovation and experience. As AI continues to integrate into engineering, skills in prompt engineering are becoming increasingly relevant during job interviews at GitHub.
It's lovely to see that those folks that bring fresh ideas, a great amount of energy, the latest learnings from college and university, and often a different, diverse background into the company.
The folks that are younger in career bring a new perspective to the team and say, here, 'Why don't we try this?' or, 'I want to incubate this idea,' and so we are excited about having this kind of like both junior and senior population in the company.
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