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Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.
by pyb 1y ago
Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.
- nick__m 1y agoWhy not just pay them significantly less than seniors? if there is a surplus of juniors shouldn't the invisible hand of the market adjust the salaries accordingly?
- ares623 1y agoThe invisible hand of the market is saying to hire offshore
- throwawaysleep 1y agoDepends on what you think the cause is. They can’t work for $20 a month legally in most cases.
- t-writescode 1y agoThe invisible hand of the market is playing games with promises of AI allowing one senior to do the work of a senior and 4 juniors. Whether or not it works will be something we find out long past the early-experience tenure of those junior engineers.
- pyb 1y agoAnectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.