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That was my mindset until I started venturing and running side hustles and understood the point: money.

Understanding how a business works will help you better position yourself as an engineer. Even Posthog believes that candidates who have entrepreneurial background have higher chances at launching products.

Engineering is the only field where you can learn without having "an official job". That's why a portfolio is always asked before jumping in interviews.

Same way as the generations did before interns became a thing, perhaps.

An intern program is a recruiting pipeline, plain and simple. If you're cutting back, that'll be an early thing to go.

Plus, if you believe in AI-driven coding, the intern-quality code is just a few prompts away. So become a senior prompter.

I can imagine that training only leads to bearing fruit in other companies if the junior/intern decides to leave.