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Ask HN: How do I coach junior devs who wont listen?
Two months ago I joined a dev team at a large company as a senior software engineer on a web app. I joined a team where their last app that they worked on before I joined became maintainable and failed after 6 months (they blame the fact that they used React over Angular). I have been trying to suggest architectural changes as well as suggestions for how to make the app more maintainable, but the junior developers don’t want to listen. (For example, they want to replace our Postgres DB with MongoDB because they don’t understand normalization well enough). Our software lead, despite being a bright guy who knows what he is doing, mostly lets them get away with doing whatever they want to avoid conflict. How should I handle this situation?