[chrisbennet]

Getting the first job in tech is fairly difficult I think.

Employers don’t want to invest in training anyone because (in their experience) the employee will just go work someplace else for more money. It seems to never have occurred to them that if they pay market rates to the newly up skilled employee, that the employee wouldn’t feel the need to leave.

The “shortage” of tech talent is really a shortage of tech talent that will work for below market rate.