I gather that quite a lot of companies are using dumb metrics which would show this as _good_ behaviour, these days.

Sure, but the overriding metric should be the opinion of the Sr engineer who is supposed to be mentoring and supervising the Jr

You'd hope, but, y'know, AI mania.

Very bad hire. I’ve gently said as much to my manager and skip. But for some reason hiring is hard and firing is hard, and we’re a small team, so I’ve been told to just lower my standards. Yeah, I know