> keep in mind that the potential length of career of a programmer is something like 40-45 years. It should not be strange to have a team with several people wh

> keep in mind that the potential length of career of a programmer is something like 40-45 years. It should not be strange to have a team with several people who have more than 20 years under their belt -- and yet it is often very strange. IT industry experienced very fast growth in recent years in number of candidates. We don't have enough people to consistently form teams with at least one guy with ten years of experience, much less several guys with twenty years. We'd need to wait another decade or two to see the seniority expectations to normalize like in any other craft.