> PLEASE try to convince your employer to subsidize training and prioritize that over hiring I would add mentorship to this. Even an informal program would be

> PLEASE try to convince your employer to subsidize training and prioritize that over hiring I would add mentorship to this. Even an informal program would be fine, as long as it means hiring more junior candidates who are then mentored (i.e. internally trained) by the more senior staff who were hired partly for this purpose. Even the mentor tends to learn from this arrangement, so everyone benefits. > Startups are frankly lying to themselves if they think they hire hyper-qualified people anyways Whether or not that's the case for an early startup, the credibility of such a conceit wears thin as a company grows. Unfortunately, the attitude of "we don't have the resources for training or mentorship" doesn't seem to dissipate, even with dozens of engineers.