Ask HN: Is any company still hiring entry level engineers?
&quot;but no one is willing to invest equivalent resources towards training and mentorship&quot;<p>There are companies and teams but you may have to dig deep. I would love to hire an entry level person for our small bootstrapped SAAS company but I run into some problems whenever I am interviewing someone entry level for web application development:<p>- They overvalue their salary requirements. I may get flak for this but I don&#x27;t care. Just because you have completed a &quot;bootcamp&quot;, you cannot ask for a salary that is FAANG level.<p>- They think they know more than they really do. I have interviewed a lot of entry level especially bootcampers who can write a app.get(&#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;, (req, res) but have no idea how a GET request actually works. Most cannot tell me the difference between http header and body. But they surely know how to send an ajax request through code. Fundamentals people, fundamentals.<p>- A lot of them are unfortunately sold on the idea of frameworks to begin with and they start parroting things like &quot;React or Svelte&quot; but cannot write a simple javascript or an HTML form. Many cannot tell me how a form gets submitted from the client and processed through a server.  Many have never written a &lt;form&gt; by hand.<p>- They are entitled just because they have a github (which mostly is a fork of a project or blank stuff)<p>- They don&#x27;t really spend the time learning on their own. This is the biggest thing for me. You need to try and stand out from rest. doing a copied pasted github react project won&#x27;t help especially when you don&#x27;t understand the fundamentals.<p>- They don&#x27;t want to compromise on &quot;fully remote&quot; even though they would be better off learning in person.<p>I am sounding rude here but just stating facts. I love to work with people who are entry level so I can teach them but unfortunately you want to be taught before you can be taught. These days, not so much. I would rather have you tell me that you want to learn but don&#x27;t know much vs telling me how you can build a web app in Svelte but cannot answer basic http questions. I can smell bullshit from a mile because I have been doing this for 19 years now.