Students claim to have 4.86 years (on average) of professional experience. O_o
The lowest years of experience of actual professionals belongs to... blockchain developers with 9.63 years (on average) of professional experience.
The lowest years of experience of actual professionals belongs to... blockchain developers with 9.63 years (on average) of professional experience.
Fwiw, I started getting paid for slinging code at 16, maintained the website for a university group in college, while still doing other work in the summers. I probably would have answered with “6 years of experience” if asked when I graduated.
Is that truly “professional experience”? In retrospect probably not, but 22yo me would have been too stubborn to answer otherwise.
e.g if you've been working 4h a week,
then it'd be weird to say after year that you have 1 year of commercial experience, when your colleagues spent 40 hours / week and have "only" 1 year too
I believe that pay is not necessary, but working for somebody else or in team (e.g OSS) is necessary.
So yea, I wouldn't say that hacking something even cool, but alone is commercial xp.
You've heard of "5 years of experience" entry level jobs, now meet the "5 years of experience" students
It's their intern salary projected on a yearly basis so ~ $9737/month.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-experience-yea...
BTW many people go (back) to school after obtaining some professional experience. Not sure about the context of this part of the poll though.
Going back to school after a few years is one thing... (and I lack the median, but I'm going to guess that it isn't too far from the mean) but having most students go back to school after 4 years of professional experience seems a bit odd.
I really suspect that they're either counting their 2 months of summer internship as a year several times over, misreading the professional part of it and including hobby, or misreading the professional and considering that they're a senior with 3 years of academic experience which translates 1:1 with professional, so they'll put that down.
The issue is that type of "something is fishy here" without further drilling into it makes me more skeptical of other data outliers and suspect more reporting and analysis issues than a (self reported) poll can be trusted.
That's because I've been working full time since 2nd semester
But I still do believe that it's weird.
Maybe people think about experience in general instead of commercial, full time?