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Alternative viewpoint: Roles that require less experience generally outnumber the roles that require a lot of experience. As you go up the experience pyramid,
by paulsutter 10y ago
Alternative viewpoint:
Roles that require less experience generally outnumber the roles that require a lot of experience. As you go up the experience pyramid, more and more experience is required, but fewer and fewer roles exist. I'm not talking about management per se, just trying to count roles by experience needed within a generic organization.
Challenge being that any group of individuals advance in age at a fixed rate (one year per year).
Does that make sense? Not sure about it myself.
- SFJulie 10y agoIt makes sense. It is not age bias, it is knowledge bias. You may be a good employee when you have experience, but you may also know what to expect from a "good management", like paying the hours worked. For instance, I have been literally barred from an interview because they made explicit references to young people being more flexible about accepting to work (way) more than the announced weekly work hours on the contract for free. I said I would accept without making a fuss, they did not trust me. Actually they were right; if you try to trick me, I will do too.
- aanm1988 10y agoThis is true. Having a few people at the top who can give a product direction is really all you need. Implementation is easily done by delegating. You give a chunk to the person who is in their early 30s, and they give smaller pieces to the more junior people. It's cheap, it's effective, and people learn. or you can stack a team with half a dozen 40 year olds and one guy in his 20s and he gets to do all the bullshit that the older people don't want to bother with.