Junior's are long-term investments, likely to be made by bigger companies (and ruby places tend to be the more risk taking, which tends to be smaller areas), seniors are short-term.
If a business needs to hire to get something important done within the next months, they'll basically need a senior. If a business is thinking about the next few years they should consider a junior. BUT even then given the first year the junior may *not only* not be near as productive as a senior (their ruby might be limited, their js might be limited, their knowledge of cloud services, the various frameworks used in the business, etc. is probably limited). *BUT *they may also require significant time of a senior (thus taking a senior away from an existing project. If someone is junior enough (imagine they just graduated uni and knew no ruby or rails or JS), the business might for example lose $100,000 on them in the first year and maybe break-even the second. $60,000 in wages/super/computer/etc. for the junior and $40,000 in lost productivity from the senior who is training/guiding them. Hiring a junior is probably best done 2 or more at a time because of this, so it's not something businesses can easily do. Combine that with the *HUGE RISK* that after say 2 years when the business might have finally broken even on the junior (who is now intermediate) leaves for another company. On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 10:39:02 AM UTC+10:30, soto wrote: > > I was wondering why there are not many RoR jobs in Australia. I have been > searching for one year, only found exactly 3 junior RoR jobs! > Most organisations want someone with 2+ years experience. I am not sure, > is it something that you born with. I have not heard any baby > born with 2+ years RoR experience. Parents please share your experience. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
