Not from the US, but I had assumed this was the whole point of internships right? These days with the job market being what it is, there's very little incentiv

Not from the US, but I had assumed this was the whole point of internships right? These days with the job market being what it is, there's very little incentive for companies to invest money into training when the person they're training is just going to leave in 12 months. Over that time scale the impact of an unskilled/new engineer is bigger than just the financial investment in them - someone, often multiple people have to mentor them which detracts from their productivity as well. Using a previous role as an example - we had heaps of bespoke in-house tooling and systems that even skilled engineers had to be brought up to speed on and that would often take months before they were as productive as the rest of the team. I couldn't imagine having to do all that for them AND explain to them how DNS works every few days or something. EDIT: I should clarify here because it sounds a bit like I hate uni grads. I actually only hate boot campers /s I genuinely enjoy training people - it's very rewarding, and I like talking so everyone wins BUT what I mean is that in this climate it's not necessarily a good business decision in 100% of cases. I'd be happy to explain DNS to an interested audience, but it might not make sense for me to do that if they're just going to take that and work for our competition tomorrow.