>This is NOT the case with software, it's possible to be a software engineer with 10+ years experience and still be terrible. Unfortunately most companies don'

>This is NOT the case with software, it's possible to be a software engineer with 10+ years experience and still be terrible. Unfortunately most companies don't select for good software developers and neither do most software developers (ask people what their favorite kind of interview test/question is and you'll rarely actually get a good answer but you will often get a confident one). Most companies don't reward being a good software developer either. Management mostly just don't know what it is you do and have no idea how good you are. Thus they just default to pretending that you're a disposable cog even when that behavior is self-destructive. At best they'll make use of some poor proxies (degree class, university, popularity of the OSS project you contributed a one line fix to, their personal "gotcha" question, etc.). Is it any surprise that people don't improve? With some exceptions, there really is no point.