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I would prefer to hire people with 10-20 years of experience. The only challenge on this is when the candidates want to do management work only and not get thei

I would prefer to hire people with 10-20 years of experience. The only challenge on this is when the candidates want to do management work only and not get their hands dirty anymore. On a personal level, I totally understand. As someone doing the hiring, I think a lot of candidates are missing out on opportunities to use their depth of experience as a result. It does take a lot of energy to stay hands on though.

scarface74 7y ago
It does take a lot of energy. By the time I got competitive with the Microsoft stack and server side rendering, the world was moving on to client side frameworks and Node (at least the smaller companies I prefer). Instead of trying to keep up with the front end technologies I spent the last year and half moving toward cloud architecture on AWS, learned Python for scripting and spent some time as a dev lead in preparation for being an overpriced “cloud consultant”/“digital transformation consultant”. Now I am ramping up on Node, React, and the Docker ecosystem to keep competitive as a developer. It does get tiring. But I spent some time in semi management two years ago as the dev lead and realized that wasn’t for me and from seeing how much we were paying the “AWS consultants” who were just a bunch of old school netops guys who passed a certification, I realized where the money was.