Originally Posted by Unregistered

I am puzzled by years of experience (yoe) in tech industry. I saw many jobs with a minimum yoe requirement while some tech stack only become mainstream within the past few years. In my own experience, a person who claim to have 10-15 years of engineering experience perform worse than a more junior engineer with 5 yoe even though both have worked on the same project for the same period of time. What matters is experience but not years. A person who does the same work for 5 years is effectively having just 1 yoe. While another person who takes the initiatives to solve different problems, cross-function and covering different roles at different levels effectively gain much more experience. I think as an organisation, we should encourage and incentivise people to become the latter.