I work for a company that has been pretty strong on pipelining in people as junior engineers and progressing them within the company, but even the direction we had while working remote from covid is that training in juniors while out of office is something that higher ups don't want to deal with (even if they would have little involvement in the process, such is corporate bureaucracy), so they're reticent to open positions to more junior level developers, and grads are pretty much right out unless they've interned with us previously.