Comment by alex_lav
2 years ago
This seems like nothing more than a desire to gatekeep experience? Being employed as a programmer means you're gaining experience...Even if you work at a single company for 20 years, you're not going to get some mythical competence that you could only get by staying in one area. This line of thinking seems like nonsense.
Whether you have a single year of experience 10 times (or whatever ratio you experience) is orthogonal to whether you work for the same company.
Being employed as a programmer may or may not gain you new experience (which is what matters if you are to be a good generalist). Whether it does depends on whether you are _doing things new to you_ while being employed.
Doing new things is experience. Repetition in one area is also experience. This concept you're describing is just made up.
Sorry, no. What you have just described is being a generalist vs a specialist.
Also, all concepts are “made up”. By definition.
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