It's a hiring pipeline. You're growing modestly underpriced internal talent that, in the upside case, has skills that front-run their salary by a bit. NB: I'm

It's a hiring pipeline. You're growing modestly underpriced internal talent that, in the upside case, has skills that front-run their salary by a bit. NB: I'm obviously not advocating for underpaying people; just noting that that good junior eng will grow fast and their salary will take time to catch up. It's stupidly expensive though if you look at the opportunity cost of that already-onboarded senior/lead/staff eng time. And this was obviously more compelling when it was super hard to hire senior talent.