TBH if this is your anecdotal experience it is completely opposite to what I've seen. I've seen CS grads that could not code very well, 5 years later make >500k

TBH if this is your anecdotal experience it is completely opposite to what I've seen. I've seen CS grads that could not code very well, 5 years later make >500k working as Senior SWEs for AirBnb by switching jobs every 1.5-2 years. My own tech lead left his last two jobs in < 8 months. He's a staff eng now making similar cash. And before my current position the other staff/principal engineers I saw had similar tenures.