Measuring in years is measuring by time served. Am I a prison trustee yet? Measuring with some kind of experience ruler that's likely to be calibrated differen

Measuring in years is measuring by time served. Am I a prison trustee yet? Measuring with some kind of experience ruler that's likely to be calibrated differently everywhere seems as effective as using horoscopes. And please, before anyone objects to that, I know some of you believe in horoscopes and that' ok. If we're not measuring actual skills then it's meaningless. Like software engineer interviews above entry level. If we do measure actual skills senior staff should have, we have to find ways to measure those "soft skills" that we all like to claim are unimportant but are actually the big differentiator for senior staff. You don't get to be a staff engineer by rote memorization or by being the only person that really understands some tech. Well, except maybe in startups.