I guess a lot of this depends on whether you consider juniors to be part of your talent pool. Unless you are retaining them, it is just subsidizing industry at large to train them.

I stayed less than a year at my first two jobs. They bet wrong.

▲ suzzer99 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is standard because after a year of experience, a fresh junior dev is worth roughly twice as much on the open market. Most companies won't give a 100% raise because it would upset the apple cart with other employees wanting similar raises. So the junior dev has to move on to get paid what they're worth.

▲ throwaway2037 2 days ago | parent [-]

    > This is standard because after a year of experience, a fresh junior dev is worth roughly twice as much on the open market.

My internal Brandolini's Law alarm is ringing loud and clear on this one. Absolutely not. This is only true for the best junior devs in the most competitive markets. From my professional experience, it is very difficult to keep star junior devs. The "gravity" pulling them away is simply too strong.

	▲	suzzer99 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn't that support my argument? They leave because they can make more money elsewhere.

▲ jvuygbbkuurx 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You win some, you lose some. Maybe your coworker juniors became seniors and didn't negotiate higher pay.

▲ trubetskov 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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