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The company can provide educational reimbursements (and set aside some learning time each month) for their employees, as well as provide a stipend for them atte
by dentemple 6y ago
The company can provide educational reimbursements (and set aside some learning time each month) for their employees, as well as provide a stipend for them attend relevant conferences.
A company does not necessarily need to keep pushing new tech to production to ensure that their employees stay up-to-date. They just need to actually invest in their employees.
- pknerd 6y agoProbably 1 in 100 companies offer such offers? Why depend on a company when you can learn on your own? I am self-taught programmer. I learnt Pascal and C back in Uni. After that I never tool formal education for learning new tech. Youtube rocks.
- tedmiston 6y agoIn my experience most companies will offer partial or full conference reimbursement if it's relevant to your job.
- alexbanks 6y agoI would say, with respect, I don't think this experience is normal or standard. I've never been reimbursed for a conference even if it was exactly for the technology that company built their entire product with.
- tedmiston 6y agoThat is interesting. My personal experience as a software engineer has been getting reimbursed for one or more conferences per year at every job. I've never had a software engineering manager say no to a relevant conference requested framed in a way that benefits the business. I wonder if there's an aggregate data source available to see how common / uncommon this is. Have your companies offered a general professional development budget?
- alexbanks 6y agoLiterally none of them.
- dentemple 6y agoThe idea is that if more companies offer educational benefits, there'd be less need for employees to bounce jobs just to stay up-to-date on technologies. (Obviously, this doesn't account for job-hopping for straight salary reasons)