I feel like most companies eventually hit the "it's hard and expensive to find experienced engineers, let's hire cheap code school grads or other nontraditional

I feel like most companies eventually hit the "it's hard and expensive to find experienced engineers, let's hire cheap code school grads or other nontraditional hires en masse" phase. That's not a good sign IME[1] but it seems inevitable, so it's crucial to make the best of it - I think standard intro curricula are a great way to do it. It's also a pretty clear "canary in the coalmine" indicator. If a "nontraditional hire" cannot master or simply can't be bothered to learn the onboarding curriculum, that's a clear warning sign w.r.t. the viability of that hire. ______ [1] To be clear I'm not entirely against inexperienced/nontraditional hires. I'm against the situation where a company wants to make the absolute newbies a majority of their hires because like, hey, they can learn from the senior devs by osmosis or whatever.