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The Stackoverflow Survey gives a great insight i to these metrics: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/ https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/

• tpxl 4y ago
  'Students' have 4.86 years of professional coding experience according to the survey, which is just weird. Given that, I wouldn't trust the data much.
  • tomjakubowski 4y ago
    Hey now, anyone can be a student for life.
  • culi 4y ago
    Many compsci students I know are now doing internships in their freshmen year. By the time their seniors they're often balancing school with some other sort of ongoing program I'm sure that number is inflated, but there's still some truth to it
    • tpxl 4y ago
      For it to be actual full time experience in a 5 year program, almost every student would have to work full time their whole college to get to that number. I worked summers and almost full time in my masters, which was above average for my college, and I don't know if I got to equivalent two years full-time. It is possible people mistook "professional experience" for "experience", but that still takes the data into question.
      • culi 4y ago
        Yeah fair enough. Clearly this is most likely just a direct result of job postings over-relying on "minimum X years of experience, no exception" clauses. If truths didn't get stretched, very few people would ever qualify for tech jobs haha