That brings another question to me though: Why would they even want to work in AAA Game Dev if they didn't have an experience making their own games at least?!!
The field isn't attractive from a financial perspective, and any skill required for gamedev will give you better pay if you used it in another field!
serious ? Game dev companies / Games studios don’t just have coders.
Writing code and doing development is the smallest part of game development.
And not everyone does everything in life from a financial perspective.
In fact that has never influenced a single decision i have ever made.
Ooops! I tunnel-focused there.
Now I think about it, me neither... I mean it's a factor but never the main factor.