Comment by Sohcahtoa82
3 days ago
> but when no one wants to train juniors any more (because they immediately get poached by the big ones)
Can we stop pretending that we don't know how to solve this problem? If you hire juniors at $X/year, but they keep getting poached after 2-3 years because now they can get $X*1.5/year (or more!), then maybe you should start promoting and giving raises to them after they've gotten a couple years experience.
Seriously, this is not a hard problem to solve. If the junior has proven themselves, give them the raise they deserve instead of being all Surprised Pikachu when another company is willing to pay them what they've proven themselves worthy of.
The problem is, no small company can reasonably compete with the big guns.
We're seeing this here in Munich. BMW and other local industry used to lure over loooots of people by virtue of paying much more than smaller shops - and now, Apple, Google, Microsoft and a few other big-techs our "beloved" prime minister Söder do the same thing to them... and as a side effect, fuck up the housing market even more than it already is.
That's a good point. I don't really have an answer for it.