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The Catch-22 of Being “Too Junior”
- dozzie 11y ago> What happened to the idea of apprenticeship? Happened the same as to loyalty to the employer: disappeared. (Mind you, I'm not saying it's employees' fault; I rather think it was a result of lack of loyalty of companies to their employees, or maybe a feedback loop.) > Don’t hire a junior developer as a marketing effort or PR stunt. This reason only considers your company’s best interests rather than those of the candidate. And where would you find an employer that has your best interest in mind when they don't know you yet? Company is there to earn money, not to train your very self. > Don’t hire a junior developer to do your grunt work. OK. And who is supposed then to do the grunt work? Architects maybe? CEO? The point is/should be more about hiring juniors to do not only grunt work, so juniors can learn and advance. > If there’s a shortage of developers in the tech industry, what do we do? There is no shortage of developers. There is shortage of good developers that would work for small salary.
- jbergens 11y agoI agree with almost everything in the article. A lot of companies should try to get better at training junior developers. Some junior developers might also want to rethink their salary requirements and need to only work with fun stuff. If the salaries are almost the same as a senior you have to get as good very quickly. And you should probably expect to do some boring stuff, especially early on in your career.