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Probably 1 in 100 companies offer such offers? Why depend on a company when you can learn on your own?

I am self-taught programmer. I learnt Pascal and C back in Uni. After that I never tool formal education for learning new tech. Youtube rocks.

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The idea is that if more companies offer educational benefits, there'd be less need for employees to bounce jobs just to stay up-to-date on technologies.

(Obviously, this doesn't account for job-hopping for straight salary reasons)

In my experience most companies will offer partial or full conference reimbursement if it's relevant to your job.

I would say, with respect, I don't think this experience is normal or standard. I've never been reimbursed for a conference even if it was exactly for the technology that company built their entire product with.

That is interesting.

My personal experience as a software engineer has been getting reimbursed for one or more conferences per year at every job. I've never had a software engineering manager say no to a relevant conference requested framed in a way that benefits the business.

I wonder if there's an aggregate data source available to see how common / uncommon this is.

Have your companies offered a general professional development budget?

Literally none of them.

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