In small startups - “we are a very small team and we don’t have time to mentor juniors, we need engineers who will be very productive from day 1"
In medium-sized companies - “we are going to grow very fast, we need engineers who can handle scale and have faced such challenges before"
In big companies - “our infrastructure is super complex, it’ll take juniors too long to ramp up".
Seeing things like this, I pretty much always hear "We don't know what we're doing and want to find someone who does and will make us make money fast".