yoe

plural yoes

1. AustraliaalternativeAlternative form of yowe (“ewe”).

   ‘Oh, that was nothin’,’ he grumbled, ‘I took th’ head off an ole yoe one day at Weelawandabingee when I was givin’ a New Zealand chap a go[.]’

   1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 79

1. abbreviationinitialismpluralplural onlyInitialism of years of experience.

   The use of YOE as a metric comes from the idea that the longer you do something, the better you get at it. Another way of putting that is "practice makes perfect." Talking about YOE makes it easy to quantify a candidate’s experience and compare it against others.

   2020 August 10, Alex Karp, “Let’s Stop Talking About YOE”, in Medium, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2023