[necubi]

I'm pretty sure they mean that NFL players (and musicians) have dedicated practice time separate from their "performance" time (games for athletes, concerts/recording/writing sessions/etc. for musicians), whereas software engineers are (generally) expected to produce useful output during all of their work time, and aren't generally allotted time in the schedule for self-improvement.

[Juliate]

> and aren't generally allotted time in the schedule for self-improvement.

I never met a company that didn't expect to have this in the schedule and budget for their employees.

Given the breadth of technologies and the pace of the industry, I don't get how a tech-dependent company could afford not to.

[yunohn]

In contrast, I have only met companies that don’t invest in real training nor schedule/budget for any knowledge gains.

The only exceptions so far have been FAAMG, but all of them also have it as optional not mandatory and rarely encourage it tbh.

[shiroiushi]

Same here. The only time I've seen a company schedule/budget for training was when I worked at Intel in the early 2000s. They were very serious about sending people for training classes in various technologies. After I left that company because of a big downturn, I never saw this kind of support for training at all.

[johnnyanmac]

Ask 3/4 of my last studios. Not even much introductory training. Just sat down and given a task after the first week of setting up authentications.

Also, contracting doesn't usually let you bill training as part of the work. That's just "research" for the problem.

[tom306]

But even then the training to "performance" ratio is not even close (and for good reason) for developers vs athletes/musicians.