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As a company, we dont normally do large scale hiring. When we do large scale hiring, we can bring on junior devs.

If we are hiring for single spots, we need experienced developers.

But if you were in the same large scale hiring situation again and can bring on junior devs, would you do it again?

It was a once a decade hiring process.

"If we are hiring for single spots, we need experienced developers."

That's why you don't see openings for entry level positions.

Sometimes, you just don't need that many new people. This is one of the things that happened with Hungry Academy and Living Social back in the day. A sudden influx of 24 new people doesn't mean you're immediately ready as an organization to pick up 24 more, even if they are good entry-level engineers.

You chopped the context out of the quote. I thought the original was sufficiently explanatory.

That's actually not true. He/she quoted the original two sentences. The parent post was later edited to add a third (middle) sentence.

Oh, pardon then. The original really does read strange.

Sorry about that. Three people asked the same question, so I updated the post after.