I guess this works well for body shops (though I'm not sure that body shops work well for anyone), but I've never seen this theory play out well in practice.
Often I find it the other way round. You hire an Angular expert and, if he's junior, you spend the next 3 months unteaching him all the bad habits he's learnt, or, if he's a senior, spend the next 3 months arguing with him about who knows Angular better, all the while kissing goodbye to any maintainability your code base once had.
If you have simple, well factored code, a good coder can learn it quickly. In fact, juniors often get it faster because they don't have to map their limited understanding of "patterns" to the documentation on the website or the behaviour they see on the ground.
What gets me about all this is that web app development is just about the simplest programming you can do. It always staggers me the lengths otherwise intelligent developers (sorry, "software engineers") go to make their architectures as complicated as possible. I sometimes think it's because they're intelligent that they do this, perhaps out of fear of not being challenged?
As an aside, if you're spending three months arguing about who knows something better instead of putting the ideas under discussion on practice to see which one works better, you're either doing your hiring wrong or your team dynamics suck (or both)
Often I find it the other way round. You hire an Angular expert and, if he's junior, you spend the next 3 months unteaching him all the bad habits he's learnt, or, if he's a senior, spend the next 3 months arguing with him about who knows Angular better, all the while kissing goodbye to any maintainability your code base once had.
If you have simple, well factored code, a good coder can learn it quickly. In fact, juniors often get it faster because they don't have to map their limited understanding of "patterns" to the documentation on the website or the behaviour they see on the ground.
What gets me about all this is that web app development is just about the simplest programming you can do. It always staggers me the lengths otherwise intelligent developers (sorry, "software engineers") go to make their architectures as complicated as possible. I sometimes think it's because they're intelligent that they do this, perhaps out of fear of not being challenged?