Comment by Gnarl

Consultant with 20+ years of field experience here. What I get tasked with mostly is code-reviews for security and performance, and fixing elusive (and painful) bugs. My specialty is to be able to rush in and take over from quitting employees and then train a replacement hire, or just help "put out fires". Over the years I've developed an intuition for where bugs hide. I just need an employee who works with the codebase to explain how the bug manifests. From there I can usually nail it in a short while. In short: experience gets paid.