Sure I agree that offering more than a junior role is unreasonable, but all the HR grads I know moved into senior roles very quickly after being hired. I went t

Sure I agree that offering more than a junior role is unreasonable, but all the HR grads I know moved into senior roles very quickly after being hired. I went to Hack Reactor, got a job, and was considered a senior dev by my manager after one and a half years. I'm in my second year now and I'm a team lead. We have a few other HR grads on our team and they are excellent developers that other engineers look up to for advice. Sure, not everyone is like that, but there are plenty of people like this who I know personally. Now what about CS grads? We've interviewed plenty of people with master's degrees in CS who don't know how to code a binary tree because "you know, I wasn't that into the data structures course..." Or if they have lots of experience they demand more money than the manager makes because, apparently, every company has to compete with Google salaries. I remember my classmates and I staying after class because there was a guest speaker coming in to talk about quad-trees and b-trees and we were SO EXCITED to learn about these things. We've taken more candidates from Hack Reactor than not because they show this passion for their work that I have personally rarely seen in CS majors. They generally require a few months of ramp-up time, but I think it's worth it, and since they are usually coming over from a different field they bring a lot to the table from their other experiences.