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Re:Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-j... by distant_hat on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:42AM (#18508105)
Yes, this is common in India too. In fact, companies like TCS, etc are called 'mass recruiters' who recruit in bulk. There are satirical YouTube videos about them hiring by the kilogram. They hire indiscriminately, pay crap, in the the next 6 months people undergo on-the-job training. Some are kicked out, some are moved to better positions and offerings and the rest are contracted out to run-of-the-mill projects.

Back when I was graduating, we had TCS come to our Tier-I college. The recruiter started off by telling that the salary they will be offering was 250,000INR/yr (then about 7K USD/yr) and that those who found it too low were free to leave. About half the class walked out. The rest stayed, most were offered a position.

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Re:Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-j... by ivanhoe on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:18AM (#18508622)
From my experience of outsourcing to India, they give those juniors a real, paid projects to learn on and do very little babysitting and quality control on the code produced, reducing their costs, so they're still making them money while learning - but that results in poorly written code and creates all sorts of problems for clients.
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Re:Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-j... by kkarakk on Friday November 23, 2018 @01:22AM (#18514731)
>but that results in poorly written code and creates all sorts of problems for clients.

which is where the service contract comes in

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Re:Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-j... by lapnitnelav on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:28AM (#18508460)
So, in which group were you? The ones that left or the one that stayed?
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Re:Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-j... by distant_hat on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:08AM (#18542818)
Neither. I am not in software.
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