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There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers

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263 points mooreds | 5 comments | 30 Sep 25 03:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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pyb ◴[30 Sep 25 04:02 UTC] No.45421774[source]▶
Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.
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1. nick__m ◴[30 Sep 25 04:09 UTC] No.45421800[source]▶
Why not just pay them significantly less than seniors? if there is a surplus of juniors shouldn't the invisible hand of the market adjust the salaries accordingly?
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2. ares623 ◴[30 Sep 25 04:11 UTC] No.45421804[source]▶
The invisible hand of the market is saying to hire offshore
3. throwawaysleep ◴[30 Sep 25 04:15 UTC] No.45421822[source]▶
Depends on what you think the cause is. They can’t work for $20 a month legally in most cases.
4. t-writescode ◴[30 Sep 25 04:17 UTC] No.45421836[source]▶
The invisible hand of the market is playing games with promises of AI allowing one senior to do the work of a senior and 4 juniors.

Whether or not it works will be something we find out long past the early-experience tenure of those junior engineers.

5. pyb ◴[30 Sep 25 04:41 UTC] No.45421951[source]▶
Anectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.