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>>, many employers would rather hire a couple of inexperienced computer programmer and spend a few months training them [...] In addition, many employers aren’t interested in providing training to engineers or programmers

>That directly contradicts the preceding paragraph,

The "many employers" can be 2 different subsets of employers and/or 2 different tech stack situations. Examples...

Subset (1) FAANG or "tech" companies will train on specific in-house technology stacks for younger new hires. The "inexperienced" was in referencing "young". E.g. Apple hires fresh young college graduates that only did Scheme and Python in school but will train them on Objective-C and Swift so they can work on macOS and iOS. However, Apple typically doesn't hire older experienced COBOL programmers to re-train them in Swift.

Subset (2) companies that don't train new hires (many non-tech companies where IT/dev is a cost center). They usually don't recruit from college campuses and prefer the job candidates to have existing skills that already match the job listing. E.g. a hospital IT's department has a job listing for a Java programmer to help maintain their billing system. The hospital is not interested in a candidate who's skillset is only Turbo Pascal and Macromedia ColdFusion and retraining them on Java.