I didn't really mean training as in pre-planned courses. More sitting down with someone more experienced and being coached through a feature or a programming concept. I guess I was wrong to expect more of this.
Not guiding new people on critical aspects of existing systems or codebases is an indication of weak management. I think it is fair to assume that a developer knows the basic concepts pertinent to a given role, however the behavior of working systems is usually determined by a suite of proprietary configuration that is going to be confusing for anyone new. Unfortunately the people most familiar with that will have the hardest time communicating it to someone that is new.
How do you think the college more experienced than you has learned all he knows? Could be through another experienced college, yes, but chances are he learned by himself. We, IT people, are somehow elitist when it comes to knowledge: we think meritocracy is the way. I don’t like it but that’s how it is.
