>They deserve the same three monitors everybody else gets.

I wouldn't make a strong statement like that. As a junior, you're just excited to be there, and gain experience. If the company policy is that you don't get the top-of-the-line hardware until you reach a certain professional milestone and this policy is applied equally then it's not the end of the world.

> As a junior, you're just excited to be there, and gain experience.

For the first few months perhaps. Then a friend sends a pic of his setup and tells you that he will split a referral bonus with you if you apply. It took me 4 months to find my first dev job, once I hit the 6 month mark, jobs came to me in abundance.

You proffer that people should be fine being second-rate citizens so long as there is a policy outlining their second-ratedness?

This is not the star-studded retention policy you think it is.

It's the not-even-beginning of the world. Why work for someone so cheap? Why fight for a monitor, where at a competitor you could fight fort a raise?

But they are getting the same junk as everyone else...

" Everything is “reservable equipment” of garbage monitors, windows keyboards, and 400 dpi mice."

Wait, you guys get three monitors? I only get the one that I had to find in the closet-of-beige-machines.

I think devs would be better off having the equipment they need instead of everyone getting the same package. And yes, that includes juniors starting with a simple setup, and expand as they start to know what tools would make them more effective at the work they end up doing.