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Every junior I've brought in over the past 7 years or so with the expectation of training them has immediately left after I've invested not only money but also
by throw__away7391 1y ago
Every junior I've brought in over the past 7 years or so with the expectation of training them has immediately left after I've invested not only money but also significant amounts of more experienced developers time to bring them up to speed before I managed to recoup anything useful for that investment. I can already hear people say pay more, but that isn't up to me and besides that if we're going that route why not just hire the experienced person in the first place?
Of course increasingly it's hard even to train at all, I'm getting absolute garbage AI slop from our most junior developers and they don't seem to be learning any more. I sit and try to explain why their solution to some task won't work and they are not engaged with the actual solution they are implementing at all. I've tried to get them to engage more with the AI as a learning and exploration tool, but I'm not having much luck, they're completely focused on inputing the task, really at the mercy of the direction of the tools.
I really hope AI comes through for us in the end because it seems we're at the end-game for human learning.
- DrPimienta 1y agoA big part of them leaving is the fact that the wages aren't actually that great. I'm a programmer and have far less buying power than a Kmart cashier from the 70s had. I don't get a pension. They did. There's no loyalty because we're all poor compared to every previous generation besides those literally living in log cabins.
- runlaszlorun 1y agoNgl, totally envious of a log cabin lifestyle. I dated a girl who was a project manager for high end homes in SF. What hit me as sad was that a long list of things that are now ultra luxury were basically attainable by any hunter gatherer - a view, a fireplace, living near a lake or river, a large yard, indoor outdoor space, etc.