“There aren’t enough senior engineers.”
“Tech has a talent pipeline problem.”
“Tech has a diversity problem.”
“Tech salaries are out of control.”
Meanwhile,
“We don’t have time to onboard juniors.”
“Junior position. 12-months commercial experience required.”
My opinion is that tech has been misdiagnosed.
I don’t think tech has a talent pipeline problem. I think it has a cold start problem.
With serverless technologies, that first use can take longer than you would like while the infrastructure is put in place.
Similarly, junior talent isn’t ready to fulfil business demands in a timely manner, the foundations can’t be put in place fast enough.
We don’t poke junior talent (that would be cruel) But I believe we can left-shift, and warm up junior talent to be ready to deliver requests in production.
We identify talent with drive, energy and life experience, they could even be in your organization.
With our S&A Academy we can take that talent through an apprenticeship to learn the basics of backend and frontend development.
With our industry knowledge we fill the industry gap with SOLID and agile principles and build the confidence to present and communicate effectively.
We can provide hands on, guided experience of developing solutions to solve a problem.
We can provide commercial experience in a team without charging a client.
We can teach people to work effectively in a team with a continuous improvement mindset.
And I believe we can do this in the open, being transparent with the industry, while we build a future talent pipeline.
