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I guess a lot of this depends on whether you consider juniors to be part of your talent pool. Unless you are retaining them, it is just subsidizing industry at
by MattGaiser 2mo ago
I guess a lot of this depends on whether you consider juniors to be part of your talent pool. Unless you are retaining them, it is just subsidizing industry at large to train them.
I stayed less than a year at my first two jobs. They bet wrong.
- suzzer99 2mo agoThis is standard because after a year of experience, a fresh junior dev is worth roughly twice as much on the open market. Most companies won't give a 100% raise because it would upset the apple cart with other employees wanting similar raises. So the junior dev has to move on to get paid what they're worth.
- throwaway2037 2mo ago> This is standard because after a year of experience, a fresh junior dev is worth roughly twice as much on the open market. My internal Brandolini's Law alarm is ringing loud and clear on this one. Absolutely not. This is only true for the best junior devs in the most competitive markets. From my professional experience, it is very difficult to keep star junior devs. The "gravity" pulling them away is simply too strong.
- suzzer99 2mo agoDoesn't that support my argument? They leave because they can make more money elsewhere.
- throwaway2037 2mo agoMy objection was to this phrase: "roughly twice". No way.
- suzzer99 2mo agoWe had a guy making $60k leave for a job making $110k. This is in LA. So it was close!
- jvuygbbkuurx 2mo agoYou win some, you lose some. Maybe your coworker juniors became seniors and didn't negotiate higher pay.
- trubetskov 2mo ago[flagged]