Kent Beck to juniors: your salary is an option premium on who you'll become (newsletter.kentbeck.com)
Beck sorts new hires into A, B and C: the minimum is that your code works and you don't drown the team; the top tier challenges whether a task is even worth doing and simplifies code around it. The frame: your salary is the premium on a future engineer.
Readers who hire juniors disagreed flatly. Companies hire juniors because there are junior tasks to do, one said. Others heard the 'least effort on people who won't make it' line as a lack of leadership, an ego problem, and a ladder being pulled up.
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