I don't remember hiring being that lax in the 90s. Microsoft used (and still uses) lots of contractors, but those were not secure jobs, nor did they provide mu

I don't remember hiring being that lax in the 90s. Microsoft used (and still uses) lots of contractors, but those were not secure jobs, nor did they provide much training opportunities. Yes, during the dot-com boom, "HTML programmers" could be hired at startups with a minimum of experience, but this was hardly a long-lived trend.