> What kind of training do major tech companies do? I've never done any in my career, outside my degrees, and not everyone does that even! Is that unusual? I w

> What kind of training do major tech companies do? I've never done any in my career, outside my degrees, and not everyone does that even! Is that unusual? I wouldn't say it's unusual for most tech employees to fail to avail themselves of the training opportunities in their company. But that's not because of a lack of opportunities I would say. Many licensed professions have mandatory continuing education requirements--you're required to take a dozen-ish hours a year of classes in your field--and so there's a pretty big cottage industry of actually providing and discovering those opportunities. Since CS isn't licensed, there's fewer of those opportunities around--although there is some, and if you work at a large company, you might even get periodic mailings about some of these opportunities. Instead, a lot of training in the CS fields tends to be a mixture of hands-on training, learning about stuff outside of the company (and potentially conveying it to other people internally--we've had learning about containers taught to us that way), and going to seminars or conferences. It's worth noting that if you work at a large company, there's a decent chance that the company has already budgeted a certain amount per person for training, so if you find a conference that's not totally irrelevant to your interests, you can probably get manager approval to go to it, fully paid by your company.