Your junior engineers don’t need an office. They need you

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Key takeaways:

• Junior engineers were never reliably mentored in the office. Luck was doing the work.
• Manager involvement, not location, drives onboarding success, yet most companies still skip it.
• Remote work forces real design instead of relying on chance encounters.

In late June, the London-based fintech firm Revolut announced plans to reverse its remote-first workplace policy for 2027 interns and fresh graduates, mandating at least three in-office workdays for only new, junior hires.

The rationale behind the decision is that “the early stages of a career benefit from in-person collaboration and mentoring,” a Revolut spokesperson told LeadDev in a statement.

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