Why nobody hires junior developers anymore

The lack of good on-ramps for people seeking a technology career is a major issue. This article hits on many of the issues that create this problem. This is a topic that all technology teams need to address though, because the lack of those on-ramps will be debilitating over the long-term.

Too often I hear technology teams boast about how difficult the problem that their team solves is. How detailed and extravagant the deployment process is. They quite simply cannot have anybody but the most experienced engineers work on it.

I like to challenge that. Perhaps the problem is hard, but is it also possible that the documentation is poor. That the unit tests are lacking. That the deployment process isn't documented or even well understood.

Technology teams can make significant progress in making their code base and deployments simpler, safter, and easier-to-understand. That then enables them to access a broader range of talent.