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> My over-40 career advice for you is to remember what they do to engineers that are over 40. No offense personally intended, but as a mid-40s engineer/manager
by khazhoux 8y ago
> My over-40 career advice for you is to remember what they do to engineers that are over 40.
No offense personally intended, but as a mid-40s engineer/manager who knows many 40s/50s engineers, I can't relate to this sentiment. We have a couple of older engineers who are kinda useless, but we also have some useless young engineers too. Some of the older engineers dominate the engineering org, leading large architectures and more-often-than-not seeing technical issues very clearly and making good calls. Their defining characteristic is that they're good, not that they have gray hair.
My over-40 career advice for everyone is to stay sharp.
- rasjani 8y agoTotally agree. Been in it professionally since ‘97. I’m not a superstar or anything but people who have hired me have always done it because of this. As a self educated, i still keep myself updated as that’s always been the passion that drove me here. And observation about flip side: When Nokia came crashing down, lot of engineers where (and still are) struggling to get a new job. They had been working on same area for decades, with tools that are limited to their old work - and no desire to take chances and trying out something different. Yeah, age can be limiting factor, sometimes, but don’t let it be because of your own fault.