[Sammi]

> or the company that hired him is one of those startups that just hires anyone that walks in the door like most of them these days.

Ding ding ding.

You could replace startups with company though, because there are loads of companies of different ages that would hire someone with only 7 months of self study of programming.

Cause the thing is that the industry is starving for software developers. Those that are not employed either live in rural areas without jobs in general, aren't trying, or are just unbelievably bad at job interviews or work overall.

[kiraken]

And even considering all of this i highly doubt any company that pays more than 500$ a month would hire someone with 6 months of experience. That much time is not even enough to master html and css