This is a sad excuse. Companies should be paying for training of specific skill sets to the company, but not for knowledge and skills you should already have to get the job.
This would be like asking a hospital to pay for medical school to get a qualified doctor. It's absurd.
Here's a cleaner example: suppose getting an M.D. required a filing fee of $800,000. You don't think that would show up in what hospitals paid doctors?
What? As far as I know, hospitals don't directly pay for medical school.
Rather, the cost of medical school is reflected in doctor salaries.
(Just as the cost of training is reflected in developer salaries.)
> You don't [think] that would show up in what hospitals paid doctors?
to your
> the cost of medical school is reflected in doctor salaries.
Yes, I accidentally left out the word "think". But we're saying exactly the same thing.
The OP is implying that an employer should not only pay a salary, but pay for an employee to get trained.