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You get the best bang for your buck if you just hire teachable people and fill the gaps that matter to you. Sometimes teachability subsides over the course of
by elevation 1y ago
You get the best bang for your buck if you just hire teachable people and fill the gaps that matter to you.
Sometimes teachability subsides over the course of your career: A senior I know has terrible git hygiene but is so close to retirement, he simply won't change. But some juniors I've mentored have significantly improved their ability to compose an atomic commit with a quality commit message, and are now valuable team contributors.
Even the core concepts of your CS162 course are easily within the grasp of a CS major from a less rigorous program; you could assign some required reading as part of your onboarding process if missing these concepts would prevent them from thinking critically about problems in your org.
- alephnerd 1y agoI can't justify paying a junior engineer $120k-140k base salary to train them in OS fundamentals over several months in an industry as competitive and commodified as cybersecurity when competitors in Israel, Czechia, Poland, and India are able to hire experienced engineers at a lower dollar amount than a number of junior engineers in the US expect. This is why the majority of startup activity in the space has shifted to Israel, the CEE, or India with a nominal American HQ hosting a CEO, CRO, and sales reps. And this is the issue - we live in a globalized world, and a large portion of junior engineers in the US do not have the skills commensurate to the salary provided. A business is not a charity.