bharal

I'm always surprised nobody has any data points on this. Not even stackoverflow, who you'd think could take a stab at it in their annual data dump.

They kind of dance around it, to be honest.

Yeah, I'm not sure how effiecient that google-vs-memorising is. I do know it is incredibly polarising - say developers need to memorise and you get hammered by people passionately proclaiming that memory is dead.

But there are - as an aside - very real health benefits to having memorised the work. You're making less decisions (ie "what to google" and "is this useful"), which means you have way more willpower and energy for your daily life. Which is, of course, largely anecdotal but I think goes a long way to explaining traditional developer body types vs those in, say, finance.

(It's not like finance people are "less academic" than developers, for example).

I'm asking everyone this - what is your experience level? I know it isn't a good data point because you can be a 20 year java veteran but that isn't the same as a 5 year android veteran, but it's a start!

yes, documentation would be great, but it's so hard to do properly (and basically unrewarding).

It is wild that nobody seems to know - anecdotally (it's all anectodal, i guess) i've heard anything from 20% to 90%, it really depends who i ask.

how much development experience do you have, and are you front/backend (or devops?)