In my current company on year seven, I've definitely learned more on this job than the previous seven years where I worked at over a dozen companies. It's not e

In my current company on year seven, I've definitely learned more on this job than the previous seven years where I worked at over a dozen companies. It's not even business specific. It's about how to build software that doesn't need to be rewritten every few years, that can be used, maintained, updated, and added to for at least a decade or two and that runs reliably for all that time. And how to develop shit software that doesn't do any of the above by corollary. Most of the things I've learned are simply not issues that arrive after a year or two. So I agree completely. People that don't have at least one long stint as a senior engineer often did not know how to develop software that will live and be maintainable for years because they never developed such software before in their lives.