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Can you provide metrics for the number of people you've seen in each of these two categories? Also I'm curious about what age demographic you're in and how long

• woofie11 6y ago
  I won't go into personal specifics, but I'm mid-career. I've been through a few companies, and made it as high up as C-suite in a smaller company, and director-level in a bigger company, before finding I prefer senior IC, tech lead, advanced development, or research roles. Of the companies I've been to, most were highly-tech focused (and pretty elite teams), but one was a large, distinctly non-tech company (with mainframes, even, and not the modern types, running legacy algorithms). I ran a small skunkworks team there. I can't give great statistics, aside from saying that at the tech companies, people tended to fall into the category of older is better. Senior engineers were senior. At the non-tech company, people tended to fall into the category of older is obsolete. The tech team was there for the paycheck. They worked 9-to-5, maintained a healthy work-life balance, and kept fairly boring systems running. The work they did was really outside of the company's core competency. It just needed to be done, and someone needed to do it. If layoffs ever came, I'm not quite sure who would hire them, though. It was culture shock for me. It wasn't specific to this one company either, but to the industry (we had pretty close contacts with both collaborators and competitors). This company was industry-leading, actually.