2 ms·
But isn't the number of "old" engineers going to increase with time? (Assuming you mean 'Software/Hardware Engineering' by 'our industry') So wouldn't the futu
by manaskarekar 11y ago
But isn't the number of "old" engineers going to increase with time? (Assuming you mean 'Software/Hardware Engineering' by 'our industry')
So wouldn't the future be a little more forgiving when the number of 50-something engineers is quite a bit more than (presumably) what it is today?
- kilroy123 11y agoMaybe, but I'd rather not risk it.
- pc86 11y agoWhy would it not? Presumably the age bias is largely the (obviously incorrect) assumption that a person in their 40s/50s/60s simply doesn't know enough or is unable to learn the new things they need to in order to operate in a startup. I think the 55 year old interviewing for a dev job with the 28 year old CTO will have a much easier time 25-30 years from now than today. At that point I think you're fighting against culture-wide age bias rather than industry-specific age bias.
- theseatoms 11y agoThe cultural climate will be more forgiving, but the economic climate less so, since there will likely be an oversupply of programmers (of all ages).