> Only the largest organizations with stable income can afford to teach people how to do their job.
Sure, you can't take someone who's never programmed anything before and train them on the job in a startup... but you can't do that in a large company either.
But every company has small tasks and spikes that they can hand to junior employees. If not, the startup is probably not breaking down the work very efficiently.
My first job as an engineer, I joined a mid-sized startup with around 150 people. My team had 8 people including me. I was very much a junior engineer (if not entry-level for that role) at that time, but I was given tasks that fit my experience level, as well as leeway to branch out into more challenging projects. Moved from junior role to mid-level, and then on to senior (7+ years later, of course).
That company had very low turnover, because people saw the company investing in their growth (and I don't mean paying for training, I mean actively nurturing their skills in their work).
Companies who want to hire only mid-level workers or up will likely find the mid-levels bogged down with all the little tasks that junior workers could be handling for them.
That makes the mid-levels less productive, which is the worse thing for a startup to be.
Sure, you can't take someone who's never programmed anything before and train them on the job in a startup... but you can't do that in a large company either.
But every company has small tasks and spikes that they can hand to junior employees. If not, the startup is probably not breaking down the work very efficiently.
My first job as an engineer, I joined a mid-sized startup with around 150 people. My team had 8 people including me. I was very much a junior engineer (if not entry-level for that role) at that time, but I was given tasks that fit my experience level, as well as leeway to branch out into more challenging projects. Moved from junior role to mid-level, and then on to senior (7+ years later, of course).
That company had very low turnover, because people saw the company investing in their growth (and I don't mean paying for training, I mean actively nurturing their skills in their work).
Companies who want to hire only mid-level workers or up will likely find the mid-levels bogged down with all the little tasks that junior workers could be handling for them.
That makes the mid-levels less productive, which is the worse thing for a startup to be.