I graduated college in 2007, into the recession. Back then, no one wanted to take a chance on someone who was inexperienced, which created an ugly dynamic wher

I graduated college in 2007, into the recession. Back then, no one wanted to take a chance on someone who was inexperienced, which created an ugly dynamic where recent grads would be out of work for long periods of time, and it only got worse as time went on in unemployment, making for a negative feedback loop. A grad with 6 months to a year without post graduate experience was basically damaged goods. At the same time, the millennial generation was in the news a lot, where the media were saying we were entitled, selfish, etc etc. So it was like you were unlucky and disliked at the same time. One time, I had some feedback that I thought would have helped the team I was working with - I was dismissed and told by my baby boomer boss that I needed to "pay my dues" before acting like I knew what I was doing. I had 6 years of experience at the time, though about 9 months at that company (though he had less than a year at the company). There were a couple of instances like that. I think since the recession, the generations that were hiring after the recession (baby boomers and generation x) have been been conditioned to not trust less experienced (read: younger) people, and that attitude never changed. That's why you see articles like this - author seems to be from gen-x and is worried about pay for senior engineers in his cohort, but I am happy that less-experienced (younger) people will get the opportunity to work at a company like red hat. Nowadays, it doesn't feel like companies want to take the on the "risk" or inconvenience of training inexperienced people, excluding Bay Area tech companies where the average age is in the 20s. Interestingly, those are the companies that are doing really well right now. This feels like a dynamic unique to this time - legacy orgs are basically content with getting older [1]. There's a sense pessimism too nowadays, that it makes me wonder if the generations older than mine are afraid of the younger generation taking their jobs and / or driving down wages. [1] https://twitter.com/uberfacts/status/1348723228924108808 https://twitter.com/uberfacts/status/1348723228924108808