Yeah, I had the same problem with that article. I have a friend who has at least 15+ years of programming experience (including paid contracting), but only 3 ye

Yeah, I had the same problem with that article. I have a friend who has at least 15+ years of programming experience (including paid contracting), but only 3 years out of college working "full time" for a salary. So that means he's in the 1-5 years bucket automatically? Sorry, but I don't think so, since he can run circles around most 20+ experience people. There's just no comparison between people like that who do programming in their spare time since they were a kid and people who just started programming in college and only did it for school or their jobs. It's absurd to rank them the same.