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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.




Yeah! Google should start firing their top talent every five years too so the rest of the tech industry has a chance to hire them.

Because that makes about as much business sense.


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?




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