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I feel like each company/organization has such a unique DevOps toolset that all the "training" goes into figuring out which IDE you're allowed to use, which git client to install, what even are the processes/policies for installing stuff on your work computer, what's the workflow, etc etc etc. All the bandwidth is used on that and there's not much left over for the actual art of coding.

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It's plausible that in many settings this is actually most efficient from the point of view of the company.

Do training on the things that can cause trouble longer term (inconsistent tooling taking over, security issues, company-specific things you cannot find online) and just hope people pick up the rest as they go. Good workers will usually manage. The people deciding how to train new workers maybe don't even know what kinds of "main" knowledge a given worker would need. Rather than assigning an expensive senior worker to training them, they might hope someone good willing will do it in their spare time.

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