[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.