Everytime I need to do sting split, I'm like is it after I specify or including? Well Google will remind me.

Congratulations first step in a long career.

A) UK.

B) Generally by who the boss listens to the most. Age experience etc are less important than the gift of the gab. or even more importantly results.

C) i am the Tech lead where i am now (a startup ). We have a small dev team (4 devs + 1 qa + 1 infrastructure). were pretty relaxed everyone gets to speak there mind and make suggestions etc. I just spend more times in meetings with the MD and sales/ops.

D) I'm happy with where i am now i think as long as that is the case i will stay. i had a friend who recently moved companies, he had been there for years since uni but still had not been promoted past junior and even though he was one of the best on the team at this point new hires were getting better offers, sometimes you need a clean slate. i think people still saw the "student hire" even years later, now he has no problem being taken seriously.