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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.
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