[Tolexx]

How can there be apprenticeships when most companies are only looking for senior engineers? They are scared of training junior engineers because they feel that they will leave the company after a few years or even months. This is not always the case.

[morelisp]

There's the old joke, the CFO asks the EM, "what happens if I pay for all this training, and the junior engineers just leave afterwards?" The EM replies "OK, but what happens if we don't train them at all, and they stay?"

To the larger point: I'm very much in favor of hiring junior developers, but there's a limit - I find you need at least 2-3 mid+ developers for each junior, ideally at least one senior/staff per if you want to do a good job of mentoring and development at the same time. Since the industry has grown exponentially, it's impossible to hire proportionally to applicants and maintain this ratio.

I am counting down the days until our recent senior hire is fully onboarded and comfortable and we can open a junior position again.