Do you honestly think no other profession gets judged on a singular, unfair metric? „Years of experience“ is probably the most common one that gets used everywhere, and is especially harmful for fresh graduates.
Dear fellow engineer. Your suffering isn’t special, although I empathize with your individual case. Please, just stop complaining about mundane things.
> “Snobs are bad, and software engineer snobs are the worst. Agree | Disagree? Most in tech don’t care at all.”
Reaction: Sounds like the author has no real experience with "higher academia", nor "old money", nor many other sorts of snobbery.