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That's exactly what the parent comment says: title inflation. I sometimes get even funnier CVs, where a person with 2-3 years of experience (usually from the A

That's exactly what the parent comment says: title inflation. I sometimes get even funnier CVs, where a person with 2-3 years of experience (usually from the Army) is already in a tech lead / architect position.

ZephyrBlu 3y ago
Tech is very strongly bi-modal or even tri-modal in terms of both compensation and skill. Some people with 2-3 YOE will operate better than some people with 10 YOE.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago
  > Some people with 2-3 YOE will operate better than some people with 10 YOE. That's true of every field, and doesn't really relate to the claim of bimodality. If ability followed a perfect normal distribution, it would still be true that some people with 2-3 years of experience are better than some other people with 10-15 years of experience.
  - ZephyrBlu 3y ago
    In most fields this is extremely rare. In tech it's relatively common. The difference is the kind of environment you're working in (E.g. high growth tech company vs non-tech company) and the learning rate in that environment, which is where the modality comes into play.
    - thaumasiotes 3y ago
      > In most fields this is extremely rare. For example? In pretty much any field I can think of, it is definitely not rare. The norm is that some people pick things up quickly and other people don't. It is normal for good musicians with 3 years of experience to be better than bad musicians with 10 years of experience. It is even more normal for good secretaries with 3 years of experience to be better than bad secretaries with 10. My mother once partnered with a local university to offer students internships clerking in her medical office. She remarked that the students, with their zero years of experience, were more effective in this generic, unskilled role than anyone she was able to hire into it. (Those people had many years of experience.) The partnership with the university wound down and she went back to hiring no-hopers with plenty of experience. According to her, that was the best she could hope to do for the dead-end position she was offering.
epups 3y ago
In my personal experience, devs that "cross-pollinate" in other fields are usually more competent than someone with the same YOE from a purely tech background.

ZephyrBlu 3y ago

Tech is very strongly bi-modal or even tri-modal in terms of both compensation and skill. Some people with 2-3 YOE will operate better than some people with 10 YOE.

thaumasiotes 3y ago
> Some people with 2-3 YOE will operate better than some people with 10 YOE. That's true of every field, and doesn't really relate to the claim of bimodality. If ability followed a perfect normal distribution, it would still be true that some people with 2-3 years of experience are better than some other people with 10-15 years of experience.
- ZephyrBlu 3y ago
  In most fields this is extremely rare. In tech it's relatively common. The difference is the kind of environment you're working in (E.g. high growth tech company vs non-tech company) and the learning rate in that environment, which is where the modality comes into play.
  - thaumasiotes 3y ago
    > In most fields this is extremely rare. For example? In pretty much any field I can think of, it is definitely not rare. The norm is that some people pick things up quickly and other people don't. It is normal for good musicians with 3 years of experience to be better than bad musicians with 10 years of experience. It is even more normal for good secretaries with 3 years of experience to be better than bad secretaries with 10. My mother once partnered with a local university to offer students internships clerking in her medical office. She remarked that the students, with their zero years of experience, were more effective in this generic, unskilled role than anyone she was able to hire into it. (Those people had many years of experience.) The partnership with the university wound down and she went back to hiring no-hopers with plenty of experience. According to her, that was the best she could hope to do for the dead-end position she was offering.

epups 3y ago

In my personal experience, devs that "cross-pollinate" in other fields are usually more competent than someone with the same YOE from a purely tech background.