[jheriko]

"To become the expert, you need more projects. They can be smaller, experimental, and even be isolated parts of a non-existent larger app."

This is so true. A lot of the 'experienced' people I've met in the industry with 10 or 15 years behind them have done nothing but their jobs in that time to practice their art, and their 'experience' is therefore of such low quality that an exceptionally good junior with a few hobby projects behind them can outclass them even in their own specialist area.

[clobec]

This is so laughable and a little typical of HN.

I've worked with guys that have done nothing other than Spring and Hibernate for nearly a decade and they know those platforms inside and out. There's just no way someone junior with a few hobby projects are running rings around those guys in their areas.

However, if you take something new, or something these guys haven't used, then yea.... rings could be run. Other than that, I don't think so.

[jheriko]

I dunno, I've experienced this a lot, although to be fair, with much larger areas of expertise than a particular product. I was thinking more about 'graphics', 'AI' or at the language level like 'C' or 'Java'.

I'll trust my experience over guesswork.