I'm almost 50 and I don't share your opinion, so that's probably not it... She's not falsely advertising herself; she clearly states "junior" developer. And sh

I'm almost 50 and I don't share your opinion, so that's probably not it... She's not falsely advertising herself; she clearly states "junior" developer. And she's looking for a place with some idea of what mentorship means - a concept and practice that, I might add, is commonplace in traditional engineering fields. It has even been formalized into the licensing process in those that require licensing (subsets of civil engineering mostly). Yet in software it's surprisingly common to refuse to acknowledge that mentoring has any place or role. Is this wishful thinking on the part of introverted devs who would rather not do it? Then we wonder where all these cowboy coders came from. Well, they taught themselves, like you wanted! The truth is though, you're right - mentorship is not a startup kind of thing. The author would find it easier to get what she needs by working a few years for a BigCorp. They can offer more mentoring because they can afford it, they take a longer-term view, and the people hiring might even be more than just one or two years more experienced than the candidate. Whereas a startup is likely to be young, fast, and ainobodygot time fadat. Edit to add: Author didn't major in CS yet somehow learned JS, so it seems like she can indeed teach herself.