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You can also look at their driver's license. That should tell you a thing or two about seniority.

Age does not correlate in any way to seniority.

Except it often does. I've been in multiple situations where people who knew less then me were more senior, simply because they had been around longer.

A better measure might often be time-at-the-company. I'm older than some of my coworkers, but they wrote 3/4 of the codebase I work in. Commits seem like a good proxy for knowledge.

You could also graph commits over time in particular repos/apps/folders, and see who is has been the main maintainer/developer for those sections of the codebase at various times. Cool stuff!

Yes it does. Is it causal, no, but it certainly correlates.

Yeah, but not what projects they worked on ;)

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