“...less productive software engineers than single Red Bull-fueled 22 year olds (on average)...”
If you think a bunch of 22 yo people running around in circles creating technical debt and missing the point of features to get an over engineered pos out the door that you’ll spend way more on to ripout the 20,000 npm librarians and crashing severs because “how does memory work” and “I wrote sooooo many lines of code” - yeah, you’re part of the problem.
No. All the reasons you’ll see below are due to bias of experience - including this one.
It’s all a made up game to hire people who have similar lives to the people doing the hiring.
If you’re from the ghetto no matter how smart you are you’re fucked. If you were born rich in Palo Alto no matter how dumb you are the world is your oyster.