You hire juniors on potential, seniors to fix a gap. Right now, 90% of hiring is focused on plugging gaps in the next 6 months - that's just where we are in the

You hire juniors on potential, seniors to fix a gap. Right now, 90% of hiring is focused on plugging gaps in the next 6 months - that's just where we are in the cycle. As to why we're here, I think it's obvious at this point that tech massively overhired between 2016 and 2022. Finally, the growth areas haven't completely disappeared, they've just shifted. If you're a junior right now, you should be getting into ML or something, not webdev. Plenty of entry level roles in ML.