<blockquote>Did ACS considered all the 8 years you have or did they counted it as 5 or 6, making the 2 years part of training?
Also, if the assessing company considered 3 out of the 5 years for example, can you still claim 5 years in dibp?</blockquote>
My employment in IT started Sept 2005. My ACS result letter states that:
<i>The following employment after September 2011 is considered to equate to work at an appropriately <b>SKILLED</b> level and relevant to 261312 (Developer Programmer) of the ANZSCO Code.</i>
As you can see, the first 6 years of my work experience were removed (deemed 'unskilled' level). I plan to claim points from work experience earned AFTER September 2011, which will entitle me to 5pts come September 2014 (3 years).
I just hope that no drastic change/s in Migration rules will happen on July 1. X_X