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Young engineers often undercut their value by a lot. That's part of why they are popular



I agree (and expect) that people new to the job market would be poor estimators of their market value. They would also have the least room to negotiate.


True. juniors dont know their market value and that makes it easy to get them stuck in low-paying jobs




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