Professional qualifications mean little when qualified candidates outnumber job openings. Five years experience is golden because it means qualified and cheap. Fifteen years experience is a liability because it means qualified and expensive. Twenty-five years experience is nearly unhirable. All three can do the job.

Race? I’m surrounded by eight cubes. Three occupants speak English as a second language. If I say “software engineer”, any other software engineer can tell you what their first language is. I like two of them. The other one one talks on his phone too much.