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You're 33, you're not on the 'older side of the programmer market.' If anyone tells you that, I suggest you take a long hard look at who they actually are.
by wavefunction 9y ago
You're 33, you're not on the 'older side of the programmer market.'
If anyone tells you that, I suggest you take a long hard look at who they actually are.
- kevmo 9y agoWhen I was a junior programmer at 30, it sure felt like I was on the older side. :) It's a separate subject, but there is a lot of age bias in the field.
- Cerium 9y agoI guess you have to be in the right place. I'm 28, and the most junior person on my team by at least 5 years in age and 8 in experience. It is great, since I have so many people to learn from.
- joncampbelldev 9y agoI'm 28 and I wish I were the most junior on the dev team. Being a "lead" developer is fun, but I wish I had more people who I can actively learn from just by being around.
- pc86 9y agoThere are plenty of places where the "senior" developers have more than 5-6 years of experience.
- konschubert 9y agoI know how you feel. I'm 26.
- pcurve 9y agoVery true. I work at Fortune xx company and there are literally hundreds of developers in their 50s and early 60s. (ones older just retire). Many of them are head down workers reporting into managers who are 10-15 years younger (who probably don't make any more)
- slavik81 9y agoDo you have a source for that? As far as I can piece together by going through the 2016 and 2017 StackOverflow developer surveys, the median professional developer appears to be ~30yo, with ~8 years professional experience.
- wavefunction 9y agoDon't you think there might be some implicit bias relying solely on a StackOverflow survey? My source is that I know plenty of developers working in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60, which is anecdotal for you but reality for me.