Originally Posted by Unregistered

this is exactly what happened. due to the tech boom, even traditonally non tech-focused firms like bank are hiring fresh grad techies en masse with higher salary offers. in order to compete, tech firms like govtech have to do the same for newcomers.

The diff? tech firms have more incumbents that will be dissatisfied when they see juniors with higher pay. tbh this retention issue is a fairly new problem.....