1. Why junior level? Because I don't want to add memory leaks trying to add features to mongrel2, I'm not enough of a ruby wizard to hack on Rails or Sinatra yet, etc. When I start a project, I want to be doing stuff that will challenge me, but I can still get something done on. When I am hired, I don't think they're going to put me in charge, I think they're going to assign me small things to work on until I learn more and prove myself.
2. My full time job is looking for work. I have many part time jobs, like freelancing, helping my family, farm work, etc. I want to contribute so I can learn. Starcraft will not make me any happier a year from now, or even a month from now.
I use lots of open source. I spent most of a day once optimistically installing what I needed to build Firefox, only to read how long it takes even on quad-core meat grinders. I have a single core 2005 vintage laptop.
In short I don't care if I don't care about the project. The goal is help the job search, sharpen my skills, and maybe contribute something while I'm at it.
>well and after all that investment the person leaves for better salary/etc
They could offer them a raise based on their new value? If this company can't pay people well or offer a good work environment, how are they going to get senior developers?
> (any NoSQL/Hadoop) can be picked in a week
I can't believe there are companies looking for people with a "week" of experience in NoSQL who aren't mid-level developers already.
May I submit that if companies collectively hired some junior/entry level employees, they might eventually have some mid and senior level developers in the market? Just looking at Startuply for example, there is maybe one junior position out of 53 positions listed in Austin.
Perhaps hire one senior level and a two or three junior level developers to work closely together, and try and raise the productivity of the new devs.
If there are NO senior level programmers available, maybe they should get creative.
2. My full time job is looking for work. I have many part time jobs, like freelancing, helping my family, farm work, etc. I want to contribute so I can learn. Starcraft will not make me any happier a year from now, or even a month from now.
I use lots of open source. I spent most of a day once optimistically installing what I needed to build Firefox, only to read how long it takes even on quad-core meat grinders. I have a single core 2005 vintage laptop.
In short I don't care if I don't care about the project. The goal is help the job search, sharpen my skills, and maybe contribute something while I'm at it.