Originally Posted by Unregistered

Partners don’t really want to fire people. It’s easy to fire but hard to find a replacement - partner has to justify it to other partners (team has high utilisation, need more people). So in a lot of teams, the team becomes smaller and smaller because people leave and they are not replaced.

In short, juniors are seldom really fired. They are quite valuable - if they are fired, the partner has less people to do work for him/her.