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Here is her stackoverflow profile https://stackoverflow.com/users/2274694/lyndsey-scott
She has 37k points there, this fact alone already makes her stand out. And yes she does have a specialization. It's iOS Development.
Also it's bullshit that experts only know one or two languages.
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People with these type of salaries are usually managers and don't really code that much anymore. I don't really get your point there. Also could you explain what an expert for you really is?
Not necessarily a manager. I know devs and team leads making that kind of money, because they're really good and their experience saves the company money.
Veritasium has a very good video explaining what experts are. He investigated many patterns of experts, including chess, finance, and similar. He showed that people who are expert spend over 10000 hours in the field and even more. Experts can quickly recognize patterns. Experts (say in C++) immediately recognize undefined behavior when they see it, for example.
You are just moving the goalpost... Before you said "So yeah, "hello world" and loops it's." Claiming she was basically a beginner or hobbyist. Now you are arguing she isn't an "expert" and define expert at the absolute far right side of the bell curve. Why does it matter to you so much that she not get recognition for her work?
I'm being hyperbolic when I say "hello world and loops", and I'll happily admit to being wrong if she turned out to be really good, which like I said before is only possible if she's a freak of nature. But then the likelihood and all pieces falling in place are very low. Possible? Sure. Likely? No.
The irony here that I'm talking about (which I thought people will take more lightly) is that it's very common for juniors to make a laundry list of programming languages "they know", but then "knowing" a language in reality doesn't mean anything. And from my experience, people who make such laundry lists are the worst of the worst.
And to put things in perspective, besides my serious programming, I've been doing Python scripting as a helper for over a decade, yet I don't think I'm an expert in Python, but I "know" python... whatever the hell that means... because I don't believe I'm qualified to run Python in serious production because it's more vulnerable to runtime bugs (compared to compiled languages), and as an expert in programming I recognize that. Not recognizing that every language has its niche problems is what makes juniors juniors.
No, sorry, prove you are an "expert in programming". You won't read her stackoverflow page or make the effort to read and judge any of the evidence you have been sent on the matter, so I will extend no courtesy to you as far as trusting your qualifications. Prove it.
As far as I'm concerned you are a know-nothing troll trying to sound smart and put people down. Prove otherwise.
I did look at her Stackoverflow page. There's no C++ or Java there. Seeing the bullshit now?
I've been in this field long enough to recognize this kind of laundry list nonsense.
Are you gonna concede now?