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What does "an average of 7 years' experience" mean? My years of programming have been very different to the guy who has been programming at a 9-5 job for the s
by abstractbill 19y ago
What does "an average of 7 years' experience" mean?
My years of programming have been very different to the guy who has been programming at a 9-5 job for the same amount of time. And, yes, also different from the guy who has sacrificed his entire life on the altar of programming for the same amount of time. It would be hard for a study to capture these differences, but I bet they are correlated with programming ability.
- cstejerean 19y agotypically years of experience refers to using the given technology or product as if you were working full-time using it (so about a minimum of 40 hours per week). I'm going to average it out to 20 hours since there is plenty of overhead in a 9-5 job. Assuming 50 weeks per year that's about 1000 hours per year. I'd say 7 years translates into 7000 hours of experience (this reminds me of the way pilots count experience as the number of flight hours).