> I knew junior engineers who could have code circles around way more senior That's a good point, there's a lot of nuance to that, but when I hire junior devs

> I knew junior engineers who could have code circles around way more senior That's a good point, there's a lot of nuance to that, but when I hire junior devs I still think of them as an investment, where for the first X months I'll spend more time training them than I would spend doing all tasks that they take > However, why do we concentrate on FAANG as a first employment opportunity? I don't think I made this article FAANG-specific, in fact I've spent majority of my career in small companies and I always tell entry-level candidates to reach out directly to small companies because they might be open to hiring even if they don't advertise it > looking for Junior Software engineer, I got around 700 open positions and searching for senior, I got about 900 Yeah, I tried a few searches like that too, and I was wondering why people find it so hard to land interviews if there's so many junior positions. So I started looking into that, I checked the first 100 or so results and a lot of them required 1-2y of professional experience, meaning the number of entry-level roles is smaller. > Comparing Bootcamps with CS degree is also leaves a bad taste in my mouth Yeah, that's a generalization on my side, of course CS grads will have much easier time finding their first job, but unless they come from a top school they still might have problems getting interviews these days. And with the higher demand for developers in general, I would imagine that the number of entry-level opportunities should be much higher, and it should be easy for both CS-grads and other people to land interviews, but it's not happening.