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What others have said about keeping up with technology is certainly true. However, I've found the opposite to be true -- there are many more young programmers
by cameldrv 7y ago
What others have said about keeping up with technology is certainly true. However, I've found the opposite to be true -- there are many more young programmers because the industry has expanded so much in the past twenty years, there is a relative lack of more senior people, and in my experience they are in high demand.
That said, if you're going for a straight individual contributor role rather than a lead or manager, there may be questions about why you haven't moved up and whether that might indicate a lack of ability to learn new things that might make you a less valuable individual contributor.
- pmiller2 7y ago>That said, if you're going for a straight individual contributor role rather than a lead or manager, there may be questions about why you haven't moved up and whether that might indicate a lack of ability to learn new things that might make you a less valuable individual contributor. Continuing as an IC (doing things) rather than becoming a manager where you help people do things indicates a "lack of ability to learn new things"?
- Legogris 7y agoIt doesn't, but many people have conscious or unconscious biases in that direction.