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Re:Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-j... by bayesian_horse on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:00AM (#18508561)
The only measure for "shortage of devs", or rather lack thereof would be a pool of unemployed or underemployed developers who don't work at all or who work in a different field because they don't find unattractive jobs.

If that pool is small, as I believe it is, there is no room for the idea that there are enough engineers. "Knowing how to hire", attractive benefits, locations etc are only ways to outcompete other employers, not a sustainable industry-wide mitigation of developer shortages.

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Re:Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-j... by ownagefool on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:20AM (#18508625)
Not in the US but in the UK it depends if you do a quality check. Without quality, go to a consultancy and ask for Devs and you'll get them.

After you get hacked you get someone to ask some basic principles around the job, especially anything around security, and you soon see the lack of devs problem.

After a while you end up with the guys who glue code together, or the guys who call the MSP, in charge again and they don't understand the basics, so you no longer quality problem and you have an abundance of options again.

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