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Comment by ChrisRR | Hacker News Reader

Meh, as usual this survey gives completely skewed view of the industry by being dominated by students and junior devs.

Only ~14% of respondents had <=5 years of dev experience. And 55% were >10 years dev experience.

One thing I did find funny though was this survey found that devs overwhelmingly visit stackoverflow aka the site that puts the survey out found that so many people that use the site, use the site.

I found that odd.

Since I started using ChatGPT, I rarely visit stack. If I need some code ChatGPT will tailor it to my example and I can get up and running quickly to figure out how it works.

> And 55% were >10 years dev experience

This doesn't mean they aren't Juniors though

It does. Whatever they are, they aren't junior developers any more. As a hiring manager, I wouldn't hire a dev with >10 years experience into a junior role - if they're still at junior level, it's not that they're a junior, it's that they're unable to progress, which is a whole different issue.

I think the person you're responding to has likely read this quote or one like it, and perhaps you haven't? I assume that they're referencing it in an offhand way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4627373

> Some people have 10 years of experience. Others have 1 year of experience 10 times.

That's <5 years of experience in coding. I suspect most people say they've been programming since their teens

24.8% of respondents have been programming for less than 5 years

Sounds like Stack Overflow is your dad's programming help resource. The kids are somewhere else.

it would be rather odd if 60% of the respondents didn't use the site, wouldn't it?

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