지난달에 주니어 개발자 3명을 채용했다
hired three junior devs last month
핵심 요약
AI 도구를 활용해 뛰어난 성과를 내지만 기초 코딩 능력은 부족한 주니어 개발자 채용에 대한 고민.
- AI 활용 능력 — AI를 통해 복잡한 SaaS 제품을 단기간에 구현하는 주니어 개발자 등장
- 기초 역량 부재 — FizzBuzz조차 AI 없이 해결하지 못하는 기초 코딩 실력의 역설
- 채용 기준 변화 — 기술적 기초보다 AI를 활용한 문제 해결 능력과 생산성을 중시하는 흐름
- 코드 품질 관리 — AI가 생성한 코드의 유지보수성과 아키텍처 검증을 위한 새로운 리뷰 프로세스 필요
So we posted a standard full-stack position expecting the usual circus of leetcode warriors and bootcamp grads talking about their MERN expertise.
What we got instead was wild. Kids straight up submitting fully functional SaaS products as their "portfolio projects." Not hello world apps. Real shit with auth, payments, the works. One 19-year-old built a logistics platform in 8 days using Claude Code and some open-weight model I'd never heard of.
But here's the thing that's messing with my head. During technical interviews, none of them could fizzbuzz without AI assistance. Like, genuinely struggled with basic loops. Yet they're architecting microservices and handling database migrations like it's nothing.
We ended up hiring three of them at 85k each (which felt insane six months ago, now feels like we're stealing talent). They've been here two weeks and already shipped features that our senior team estimated at 3 sprints. The oldest one is 22.
My CTO keeps playing this Tame Impala song on repeat while staring at our velocity metrics. Says it reminds him of when the iPhone launched and everyone realized Nokia was toast.
Starting to think the whole "10x engineer" thing was just regular engineers without AI competing against each other. Now that everyone has access to reasoning models, the skill floor just got nuked.
Anyone else completely rethinking their hiring pipeline or is it just us watching everything flip?
