[cratermoon]

Companies don't want to train or mentor. They want to hire someone "to hit the ground running from day 1" for a specific technology stack or domain. The idea that they could hire a good junior programmer and train them up on whatever their specific needs are seems to have disappeared in the software development industry.

[moomoo11]

Nah interest rates and tax changes just make that not feasible anymore.

Honestly imo as someone who had a high TC we really need to lower the expectations that a lot of people have about salary.

I think we should scale back to 100k for juniors. Senior and above should be a meaningful title and pay double a junior salary. Just talking base.

Tired of seeing 5-6 engineer levels where most people fuck around while 10% of the org carries everyone else.

[marto1]

> Tired of seeing 5-6 engineer levels where most people fuck around while 10% of the org carries everyone else.

As long as nepotism(both direct and indirect) exists this will always be the case.

[catchnear4321]

if everyone is a senior, surely we can flatten the hierarchy and minimize waste.

but no two companies taste the same.

instead of “wasting time” on mentoring a junior on how to work at this company, lots of top-heavy meetings where seniors discuss how they worked at the last one.