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With respect it doesn't mean anything how much experience or what degree a software engineer has anymore. It is purely on what you can do and your personal body of work.

A lot of the most sought after and best guys in the Bay Area in New York for software engineering are sub 25 and have never been to university.

The piece of paper you have or how old you are should not determine how much respect you gain from the community in the field of IT. That is an old fashioned evaluation system that the best software companies have shed years ago.