Title: Hi, all. Long time, first time. Hoping to tap into the collective HN consciousness to help make sense of this question, as I feel it&#x27;s something I&#x27;m seeing&#x2F;experiencing at present.<p>It seems like twice a week or more I read there is an industry shortage of devs, but I never hear about any companies, of any size, looking for junior devs -- or generally competent devs that might have a specific knowledge gap -- to hire and give on-the-job training to. Not even a contract-to-hire situation that leaves the company with very little risk if the developer isn&#x27;t what they needed.<p>Is on-the-job training just flat-out dead?<p>I ask this because I&#x27;m 4-years-experienced as a front-end UI&#x2F;interaction dev, nothing but glowing references, looking for another, similar, position (regular, not senior or lead) and have had...way too many interviews and rejections, and can&#x27;t understand why companies are such sticklers for interested devs to have Every Single Box in their list of requirements checked when it would take days or a couple weeks to learn XYZ framework&#x2F;library&#x2F;whatever to the level of competence that is required for the position.<p>To further stack up the frustration, it&#x27;s not uncommon to see the same position listed and re-listed on LinkedIn and Indeed for months: certainly somebody could have been hired and trained to the level needed in that time. (Maybe even me!)
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