I’m close to giving up on dogmatic junior devs. They don’t ever seem to give up their dogma, even in the face of direct damage caused by their dogma. The closest I’ve seen is a dogmatic junior dev saying they understand and will relax on the dogma, but turning around and enforcing it when they think you aren’t looking.

I’ve seen dogmatic junior devs turn into dogmatic senior devs, but I’ve never seen a dogmatic junior dev turn into a pragmatic senior dev.