Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?
EDIT: to people emailing me (thanks!), I am currently on PTO overseas so I <i>will</i> respond, but maybe not super timely. Also, we&#x27;re looking for our first QA and our first DevOps role if non-SEs are reading...<p>If you&#x27;re willing to work in Texas, send me an email (check my profile). We absolutely do not mind if you have gaps.<p>semi-OT: To all people in this thread who say there is no shortage of developers: if you know any of these developers willing to work in Texas, send them my way!<p>We are struggling to hire for front-end&#x2F;full-stack developers. It isn&#x27;t a problem with pay - we offer quite competitively AND Texas has low cost of living! The problem is that we seem to get people who can&#x27;t pass variations of fizzbuzz (i.e., implement max, min, mean, median on a list) or who we filter out after an intro call due to red flags (claimed to be a web application security specialist but also claimed no experience with web browser APIs, another that claimed to be an expert in databases but didn&#x27;t know what a schema was!).<p>I am willing to believe the talent is out there, but we are having a hard time tapping into it.