Hacker News Reader

This is also the reason many companies rewrite code to new framework because they cannot find developers that know how to program in the old framework. Really narrow-minded if you ask me. You just need a good programmer than can easily learn new languages/frameworks. It might take a good programmer a week to learn a new language/framework.

View on HN

An old job of mine put new employees through two months of bootcamp. The first month was mostly learning the industry idiosyncrasies and the second was role-specific training on the tech stack.

Understandably, this only works at large and established corporations who have enough spare revenue to invest in a dedicated training team.

I got my current job because I was able to learn a new framework overnight

Reply on news.ycombinator.com