Yup! Passionate, inexperienced programmers are more impressive. They will write 10,000 lines of complicated code using a dozen frameworks and libraries. The

Yup! Passionate, inexperienced programmers are more impressive. They will write 10,000 lines of complicated code using a dozen frameworks and libraries. The experienced old timer will get the same done with 2000-3000 lines and only 1-2 libraries. A further problem is that the impressive code becomes difficult to debug and extend as the requirements evolve. And of course with 2-3 years at a job, the original developer has long skipped to another job, leaving another junior developer befuddled with the "legacy".