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My guess is that there’s some sampling bias for the student population - if you’re plugged in enough to be doing this survey you’ve probably been hacking for a

My guess is that there’s some sampling bias for the student population - if you’re plugged in enough to be doing this survey you’ve probably been hacking for a while. Fwiw, I started getting paid for slinging code at 16, maintained the website for a university group in college, while still doing other work in the summers. I probably would have answered with “6 years of experience” if asked when I graduated. Is that truly “professional experience”? In retrospect probably not, but 22yo me would have been too stubborn to answer otherwise.

tester756 4y ago
Do you take hours ratio into the account? e.g if you've been working 4h a week, then it'd be weird to say after year that you have 1 year of commercial experience, when your colleagues spent 40 hours / week and have "only" 1 year too I believe that pay is not necessary, but working for somebody else or in team (e.g OSS) is necessary. So yea, I wouldn't say that hacking something even cool, but alone is commercial xp.