Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com)

Melissa McEwen, writing on Medium: A few months ago I attended an event for women in tech. A lot of the attendees were new developers, graduates from code schools or computer science programs. Almost everyone told me they were having trouble getting their first job. I was lucky. My first "real" job out of college was "Junior Application developer" at Columbia University in 2010. These days it's a rare day to find even a job posting for a junior developer position. People who advertise these positions say they are inundated with resumes. But on the senior level companies complain they can't find good developers. Gee, I wonder why?

I'm not really sure the exact economics of this, because I don't run these companies. But I know what companies have told me: "we don't hire junior developers because we can't afford to have our senior developers mentor them." I've seen the rates for senior developers because I am one and I had project managers that had me allocate time for budgeting purposes. I know the rate is anywhere from $190-$300 an hour. That's what companies believe they are losing on junior devs.

Comments

Re:It's very simple.

[Billly Gates]

No thank ATS computer systems like Taleo.

Here is how it works:
1. Sales man from Oracle oversells Taleo to HR VP as hey no more recruiting. Our system does it for you
2. HR fires recruiter since a software program and website can do the job.
3. System only looks for exact job description in every job and tallies up the score.
4. Since your previous employer didn't have exact job wording you are filtered out with a lower score
5. That hole on your resume in 2012 during the recession? Ha unemployable loser I see! Filter out
6. If you have all the same qualifications but did not list them for EVERY job then you are underqualified as you have 2 years experience not 5. Filter out.
7. Job description doesn't match word for word. Deducting from years of experience as last job doesn't count. Now underqualified. Filtered out.

OMG no qualified applicants look!! Idiots

You know it wouldn't hurt to actually have a human read these resumes? No really.

Linus Torvalds himself is unhirable according to these ATS job applicant systems. He has a gap on his resume from working with Transmedia to working on Linux fill time. Linus also doesn't have 3 professional managerial references...hmmm what is Linus trying to hide?? Also Linus doesn't have Oracle, RoR, node.js, tibco spitfire, Ms office VBA, Oracle reporting, and other corporate program BS list in his resume. Worst Linus Torvalds doesn't have exact same job title.

His resume won't make it HR and will be deleted. This is to show how ludcrious the situation is today