Junior-to-Senior developer ratios are critically important. If I hire too many juniors, then they will write a ton of shit code, and force whatever seniors I ha

Junior-to-Senior developer ratios are critically important. If I hire too many juniors, then they will write a ton of shit code, and force whatever seniors I have to spend all their time mentoring and not producing. Seniors are valued because they can write great code, think long-term solutions, take on a project and see all the details to completion, have a more predictable development cycle, and yes, train Juniors. So my point is... if you graduate too many too fast, you'll end up with people who you can't train, and who also think that working for "the man" a.k.a. big companies is bad, so the perfect combination of limited use, expensive, and unwilling to work in places where they can experiment.