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Pushing 40 now, I agree with most of this. However, I will say that the way recruiting works for devs is just atrocious.

• mikestew 10y ago
  However, I will say that the way recruiting works for devs is just atrocious. I heartily agree, but off-topic. It sucks for everyone, young or old. Maybe, just maybe, as the oldsters roll of to management that'll change, but meet the new boss...
  • Silhouette 10y ago
    The kind of recruiting described in the article here probably sucks more for older candidates, though. They're going to have more buzzwords to match up (or not) with greater experience, but more importantly, as developers get older and more experienced, they tend to be less reliant on this kind of recruitment anyway, preferring to rely on networking or other ways of making contact that bypass the buzzword-driven recruiter dance. If, for whatever reason, you're an older developer who knows what they're doing but isn't able to bypass the kindergarten stuff, you're going to be relatively rare among your peers, while if you're a 24-year-old hotshot looking for their second job the opposite is probably true.