Free market economics tells us that price is the variable that moves so that supply and demand intersect. I.e. it sounds like you are simply not paying enough.
As long as there's no decent form of vocational education, training in-house is a huge investment. You can only properly train one junior for every three to four seniors before it becomes disruptive.
Many companies that have already made the mistake of hiring too many juniors in an attempt to deal with the shortage, and have suffered the consequences (huge drops in quality and productivity, and in the worst case, seeing the experienced seniors they did have walk away frustrated).
Where education fails, major companies like Google and Facebook should take the responsibility for training juniors. Instead they spend their fortunes strip-mining the market.
As a junior developer at a major company, it sure feels like I'm receiving training. Since major companies are hiring both junior and senior developers, are you suggesting they stop hiring senior developers?
