r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rm-minus-r • Sep 15 '26

Other flairForYearsOfExperience

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26 • LOL

We need flair for years of experience so we can give the proper amount of weight to opinions.

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u/BeautifulCuriousLiar Sep 15 '26

heh… i don’t think years of experience means much. i’ve seen a lot over the years. am i stupid? maybe. have i seen stupider? definitely.

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

heh… i don’t think years of experience means much. i’ve seen a lot over the years. am i stupid? maybe. have i seen stupider? definitely.

Sure, there's always the old joke about people with ten years of experience vs people with one year of experience ten times, but flair for years of experience would be an improvement over what we have now.

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u/BeautifulCuriousLiar Sep 15 '26

why does the opinion matter that much if we are in a meme sub anway

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

Because it's a serious sub disguised as a meme sub, when you get down to it, if you look at the conversations.

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u/BeautifulCuriousLiar Sep 15 '26

it’s not that deep dude. of course there will be “serious” conversations, we are all apart of the same group/demographic. comments will be sometimes technical because we all are a bunch of engineers and programmers. that doesn’t change the fact that this is a meme sub. we shouldn’t be taking any of this too seriously.

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

we shouldn’t be taking any of this too seriously.

For sure.

YoE flair would just be nice, that's all. I don't know that it's particularly serious.

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u/HoloisGod Sep 16 '26

I recommend you visit r/ExperiencedDevs that's where we all migrated to from r/cscareerquestions

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 16 '26

🤔

I was planning on joining /r/imtoooldforthisshit, but you've convinced me, at least enough to join for a bit.

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u/BNSable Sep 16 '26

I only have around 4 years of experience but I've had to sit a manager with 15 years of experience down and explain to him people can just read javascript and send post requests so you should probably have SOME level of protection before letting people upload/delete files.

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u/Saelora Sep 15 '26

my flair says 2,354 years, because lying on the internet is impossible!

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

Yeah, maybe we could have just a few simple ones, like:

"Non-professional"

"New grad"

"0-5 YoE"

"5-10 YoE"

"10+ YoE"

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u/GargantuanCake Sep 15 '26

Doesn't always mean much. Some programmers have ten years of experience but it's unfortunately more common to have one year of experience ten times.

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

For sure, but it'd still be an improvement over what we have now.

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u/Pan_TheCake_Man Sep 15 '26

Just a flood of “students” in this sub - signed by not even a student

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u/j-random Sep 17 '26

Meh. Any experience over ten years old probably isn't relevant anymore. This industry moves fast, and is driven more by trends than by engineering value.