> you're a senior delivering 10x the value of a grad
Not arguing one way or another. But an alternate hypothesis would be this skill gap has closed.
Education might be better. Or tooling may have improved such that the tangible benefit of experience has, for most current applications, depreciated. Assuming the reduced innovativeness of the average tech worker today versus ten years ago, the equation balances.
Test might be measuring this skill gap in new industries (e.g. crypto) versus established ones (like adtech).
Even with the best education, tooling and copy-paste resources, it still takes at least 4-5 years to become competent. In my opinion, entry-level quality as consistently dropped over the last 20 years.
It's not, juniors are as bad as they were 2 years ago.
Generally it's politically easier to nerf better paid employees than cheap ones.
You can have the socialist argument of "hey senior engineer, take a salary cut / no raise for the common good, to avoid layoffs of junior engineers - which btw would be the first to go as they're not as productive as you are" and I've seen plenty of senior engineers accept that. Their livelihood are not as stake so they'll take one for the team, forgetting that it's a for profit company which can't find the money.
In the above scenario, I refused and I wasn't fired - but I also started looking for a job and switched 2 weeks after the above episode happened.
Not arguing one way or another. But an alternate hypothesis would be this skill gap has closed.
Education might be better. Or tooling may have improved such that the tangible benefit of experience has, for most current applications, depreciated. Assuming the reduced innovativeness of the average tech worker today versus ten years ago, the equation balances.
Test might be measuring this skill gap in new industries (e.g. crypto) versus established ones (like adtech).