No one hires new grads out of the goodness of their own heart. This is a tactical decision to drive value to the business. I've seen this manifest in two classe

No one hires new grads out of the goodness of their own heart. This is a tactical decision to drive value to the business. I've seen this manifest in two classes of company: 1. Underfunded companies who hire the young and ambitious because they're cheaper. This may be a tiny startup where you'll have an opportunity to learn a lot from the school of hard knocks, work crazy hours, and then vow to never do that again. Or this could be an older non-tech company that doesn't really value engineers and you'll stagnate. 2. Larger mature companies who can't hire enough Seniors. Big Tech needs a steady stream of new blood as their most talented engineers slowly leave to pursue other exciting opportunities. They are simply incapable of hiring replacements at the necessary scale, so instead they build a pipeline of new developers in the hopes that some percentage of them will level up in their skills and stick around for a while. With appropriate mentorship, it's sometime easier to grow a new Senior than to hire one.