How long is a reasonable time to ramp up for Senior Software Engineers?

Another one from Quora which I experienced on my own.

https://www.quora.com/How-long-is-a-reasonable-time-to-ramp-up-for-Senior-Software-Engineers/answer/Kurt-Guntheroth-1

If the project has no documentation but the code, and the code repository is a mess, if the project is laden with technical debt, then a newly hired senior software engineer will never be as productive as the old-timers who created all that technical debt, because they are creating more technical debt faster than a single new hire can untangle it.

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