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>Developers in their 20s are definitely overpaid Why?

• spacemanmatt 4y ago
  The 5 or 10 years experience they might have is pretty thin unless they have had extremely good mentoring. It takes more than a senior project and a few years as a junior dev to be worth much. I consider junior devs incubation projects. Some of them turn out nicely.
  • lezojeda 4y ago
    But many people think they're worth that. I don't think there is an intrinsic "worth" for each developer, demand is high, supply is low, that's why salaries are high.
    • spacemanmatt 4y ago
      Well, I believe that as humans they are worth enough to eat, live, and enjoy life, at the very least, but from a surviving-in-capitalism perspective they can't pull their weight for a while in most cases. I'm not arguing against hiring and paying juniors a living wage, just noting that it takes a while and some diverse experience to get most of them over the hump, so to speak.
• akhmatova 4y ago
  Compared to people who do useful stuff. Like you know, teachers, healthcare workers, etc.
  • rr888 4y ago
    Its beyond that now, they're often paid more than doctors, lawyers, pilots, managers, traders, professors, just about everyone.