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> Indeed, companies that try to staff only with experienced devs face a pipeline problem. Without juniors today, there are no seniors tomorrow. This one seems
by kristianc 1y ago
> Indeed, companies that try to staff only with experienced devs face a pipeline problem. Without juniors today, there are no seniors tomorrow.
This one seems like a classic Prisoner's Dilemma. Defecting (hiring only seniors) is rational in isolation, but if everyone defects, everyone loses. What incentive for a smaller company to hire and invest in training the junior if in two years they'll leave for a larger company anyway.
- tiew9Vii 1y agoProvide an environment and incentives so that people enjoy working for your company and don’t want to leave.
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- hamandcheese 1y ago> if in two years they'll leave for a larger company anyway. But if companies aren't hiring juniors like they used to, shouldn't retention be a lot easier?
- kunzhi 1y ago> What incentive for a smaller company to hire and invest in training the junior if in two years they'll leave for a larger company anyway. I find these statements so damning and self-incriminating. It's an open admission that the junior should expect to be treated poorly.
- theshrike79 1y agoThis is the way. Our company hires a bunch of juniors from different fields every year, we keep the best ones and let the others off with recommendations (if warranted and in most cases they are).