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This seems to conflate "you can become a dev" with "you can be hired as a dev" after the age of 35, 40 or 50. This isn't to say it's not worth becoming a dev a
by omginternets 10y ago
This seems to conflate "you can become a dev" with "you can be hired as a dev" after the age of 35, 40 or 50.
This isn't to say it's not worth becoming a dev at a later age -- coding is an increasingly crucial skill for entrepreneurs -- but it seems cruel to entertain the myth that older devs get hired by the handful.
- smackay 10y agoGetting a product out of the door is more a human problem than a technical one. Sure there's the cliche image of the older, embittered dev who is set in there ways and refuses to change but it's just a caricature spread by by young people with no experience and an infinite capacity for working for free. Older devs who can ship are worth their weight in gold.
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- moonshinefe 10y agoWe hired a mid-40s dev recently and he's great, I think a lot of it is contingent on where the person lives and what the demand is. I'm not in my 40s yet but I've found the older the developer, as long as they have a passion for it, the more measured they are and more willing to put their ego to the side and adapt. Maybe they won't keep up to the clip a 20s-30s year old will be with learning new tech, but I think there are both pros and cons between a young person and an older person.
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- mod 10y agoI'm not sure it did--many of the devs in the examples were hired as devs, if you bothered to read their bios.