Comment by chewz

I have been thinking about it - paid apprenticeship is the answer - just as it is in other professions like medicine.

Seniors should be paid to actively introduce juniors to the trade over couple of years. No more bootcamp entry.

And it would be significant $ for senior to agree to expend his time and energy on software engineering apprentices. There would be also very limited number of places with good seniors. Exactly like medicine for a long time now.

In fact it is already happening in some companies I know about - seniors geting their bonuses tied to juniors being under their wings.