IBM Is Tripling Junior Hiring While Everyone Else Cuts
Everyone's warning AI will gut entry-level jobs. IBM is going the opposite direction — tripling their junior hiring and completely rewriting those roles. Instead of coding 34 hours a week, new devs are doing client work, marketing, and building products. CHRO Nicola Moreau's logic isn't about being nice — it's about pipeline. Skip hiring now and in three years you're poaching mid-level talent at a 30% premium from competitors, people who don't know your culture and cost more to onboard. Dropbox is making a similar bet, expanding new grad programs by 25%.
Chuck and Jenni dig into what this says about leadership that thinks beyond the short term, why lift-and-shift thinking keeps failing us, and whether nurturing talent beats hiring experienced people who don't fit.
