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I'm a full stack developer. Although not an expert in all areas, I'm efficient and productive in almost all of the areas listed. Then again, I'm creeping on 40

by ap22213 11y ago

I'm a full stack developer. Although not an expert in all areas, I'm efficient and productive in almost all of the areas listed. Then again, I'm creeping on 40 and thus, slowly getting fewer and fewer recruiter calls. This is definitely an industry that prioritizes youth (i.e. low expense) over execution, experience, skills, and breadth of knowledge. But, also, I'm probably only in the top 10% (sampling over the over 200 developers that I've worked with). And, I've worked with a few exceptional people who would destroy me, in overall comparison.

Corrado 11y ago
I'm in the same boat; only I'm creeping up on 50 and have been working with computers since the early 80's (TRS-80 Color Computer). I have worked on most computing systems that you can think of (zOS, HP3000 MPE, Linux, AWS, Ruby on Rails, etc.) and am constantly looking at the next new thing (Rust vs. Go). The problem that I seem to be running into is that I'm not a super speedy coder who is able to build a full featured Rails app (with tests, DB, front end JS, etc.) in 8 hours. With age I have definitely slowed down, but I've gained so much experience and knowledge about what will work well and what path you shouldn't take. I guess that experience is really only needed with smaller companies who can't afford to make the wrong decision early on.