>In other words: people with 5 years of industry experience are playing in a completely different arena than more junior engineers, who are unfortunately in a m

>In other words: people with 5 years of industry experience are playing in a completely different arena than more junior engineers, who are unfortunately in a more precarious situation. The logic is sound, you have a point. But I think it doesn't play out this way in reality. Maybe it's like this for your current company, but is that the general trend? I know that during the dot com bubble bursting many years ago what you said was not the case. Could be different now but do you have any other supporting evidence?