[roflyear]

I work with people who have 20 years of experience and cause more harm than they do good. Experience is not a great indicator of skill in tech, beyond a certain point: like, I'd prefer someone with 2 yrs of experience over someone with 0, but not much preference for someone with 8 yrs over someone with 2.

[GoldenMonkey]

2 years sounds way too junior. For anything mission critical.

[roflyear]

Yeah this is true, cutoff is probably 4 or so.

[primeblue]

What kind of a rotten profession is software engineering that it dismisses more experience.

Doctors, engineers, lawyers, builders, architects, brick layers, pilots etc are sought after if they have more experience

[jjav]

A lot of truth to this. It is difficult to think of any profession where the value of experience is less understood than in software engineering.