> the marginal difference in efficiency is offset by the young turks' propensity to work long hours while being paid in snacks. I don't know if this is true. E

> the marginal difference in efficiency is offset by the young turks' propensity to work long hours while being paid in snacks. I don't know if this is true. Even just with my meager 6-7 years of professional experience I can do things now that would've been impossible for me when I was starting out as a professional. Experienced devs aren't just more efficient - everything else being equal, they're more capable along all the axes you can measure a software engineer on. Additionally if an experienced engineer has non-sucky people skills they can even turn your junior engineers into seniors with mentoring and example-setting. Which means you'll be employing a senior engineer for the price of a junior engineer, at least until they learn their increased value and ask for a raise/move on. /s