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The junior level is often magnified due to lack of English proficiency.

What does their English proficiency have to do with their level? You realize your reply validates OP's comment. You're being prejudice and assume that all juniors are non-native English speakers.

It’s hard to give someone critical feedback that is kind, effective, and respectful when using Google Translate.

Of course not. It’s just been ages since I hired any “junior” developers from the west. I can also sort of expect them to have gotten a standard university education. I sort of feel that a lot of developers from the global south have been literally plucked off the street, given a 2 week intro to programming, and were then put on client projects.

I’ve seen great developers from basically everywhere, but the vast majority is garbage (at least at first).

"Global South" that's a new one :) There's quite a lot of countries in the Southern Hemisphere ...

That term goes back to the 90s

Its used in a bunch of Che Guevara's writings from the 60's