[shados]

> Very few firms want to hire juniors

It's not that they don't want to hire juniors, it's that you need a solid ratio of mentors to mentees.

I've worked at a LOT of companies, and for the more well known one, the ratio of junior resumes to seniors was easily 1000:1.

We hired entire cohorts of juniors, often interviewing HUNDREDS of them in a couple of weeks, hiring dozens. That still meant that from all the resumes we got, only a few % made it through.

What choice did we have though? We can only train mentors so fast, and hiring them is hard and expensive. You can't ask someone with 5 years of experience to train 30 people at the same time.

People often underestimate just how many people are entering the field right now, vs how many were 10-20 years ago. Add in people who EXIT the field, as well as people who are poor fits to be mentors, and it gets really dicey.