Ask HN: Does your company hire junior devs?
This may sound stupid, but in the ChatGPT era are juniors still needed? Have ChatGPT affected your plans to hire juniors? If yes then how?
J1 explicitly cited generative AI as the reason for cancelling new grad roles within North America. Whether they are telling the truth is anyone's guess.
J2 didn't cite it as a reason, but we no longer bother to run a new grad program or internship program.
The new J1 has a blanket rule that everyone needs at least 3 years of experience to work there.
Personally, in an era of ChatGPT, a new grad is a burden compared to just doing the work myself with AI. I don't want to work with a junior developer again as they know too little and need too much of my time.