What is considered "commercial experience"?

Question

Freelance

I've been a freelancer for a couple of years now, it seems like everything suits me, I have enough money to live on + there is time to learn skills.
So it became interesting, if one day I decide to go "to work for my uncle / to the office" will I have to go as a junior?)
Just a year ago + - out of interest I found a vacancy on hh and for interest I did a test task, talked about the vacancy (I didn’t want to get a job , it just became interesting) and there they told me that freelancing experience! = commercial experience.
I pay those taxes (self-employed), I work, but I don’t have any experience?)
ps: it became interesting to clarify this point right now, since a quick move is planned and God knows, maybe I’ll decide to go to the office, anything can happen

Answer 1

The problem here is rather not technical - technical competencies are easily clarified during the interview (and as a rule, the company asks about what they need, and this may not be what you know at all).
The main problem is the organizational plan.
A freelancer is his own big boss, project manager, team leader, middle and junior. He is used to dragging a bunch of everything that is not related to development. In the office, you will have to wean yourself from this - and this can be quite painful - when you, all so experienced, know perfectly well that task A is solved by way B, and the team leader says that it should be solved by way C - slower and more expensive, but necessary for some incomprehensible reason.
Therefore, employers are reluctant to hire "old" freelancers - it takes a long and expensive time to "break" them.

Answer 2

Such a term is not legally fixed, so anyone can interpret it as they want.

Answer 3

You never know who said what? This is only 1 case out of a million possible. Others may say otherwise. Personally, I consider any experience that generated commercial revenue as commercial experience, and from this point of view, there is more commercial experience in freelancing than in any factory, but after the factory they are more likely to be hired.

Answer 4

Commercial experience is usually understood as teamwork in Scrum/Agile and other methodologies. Where you have your own area of ​​responsibility, reporting, KPI and so on.
In short, discipline.
Freelancing doesn't have all that. And a freelancer is associated with an undisciplined and irresponsible worker.
I would never hire a freelancer. From experience - they fail the project in 90% of cases. Extremely unreliable group. And therefore cheap.