> No business wants to deal with the headache of on-ramping employees who have never worked in a specific domain or industry…
The usual sickness. If you don’t train people to become specialists and just expect them to fall from the sky, it’s only a question of time until you run out of specialists.
The tech industry is significantly larger now than it was a decade ago. Large self-sufficient talent pools of SWEs, Designers, PMs, PMMs, and SEs/AEs exist for most subsegments of tech now.
Additionally, limiting early career hiring to to T10/20 CE/CS/ECE/EECS programs (they tend to graduate around 10K students a year), veterans (they tend to have the "can-do" and fast learning mindset needed), and a couple regional schools is more than enough to build a self-sustaining early career pipeline for just about any segment of tech indefinitely.