I'm sorry for these bad experiences. I don't think I have seen these myself, it's either that I have been lucky, or an issue with culture where you are. There

I'm sorry for these bad experiences. I don't think I have seen these myself, it's either that I have been lucky, or an issue with culture where you are. There is definitely a trend where people get titles because of their age rather than talent, motivation or passion (it's what I call having 20y experience vs. having 20x 1y of experience). I don't think juniors are all rosy either. There's a percentage of bad people in any profession, that as I feel it is relatively stable over the years. When it comes to disdain, I don't know what you experienced so its hard to answer in a specific wat. One thing I have verified is that shit rolls down: The higher you are in the hierarchy, the easiest it is to just pass on the stuff you don't want to handle or the blame downward. Likely, in larger organizations where politics matter more for your career than skills or accomplishments, it is more important to show yourself up than being helpful down. It's kind of like when you're in line: you only see other people's back. For sure that can fill like disdain, because it is, but I would think it's not necessarily targeted at juniors, but more of a "normal" up to down relationship in places that evolved so, where people in power have little incentive to change the game that got them where they are. Best is to stay away from these, unless you are either good at or enjoy this game. So my advice would be that it's probably local to where you work, and to find somewhere that isn't like that.