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> The “old ones” brought a lot of maturity, practices (TDD, tests, even XP at times) and loved mentoring the super enthusiastic grads. You do realize that mos
by username90 6y ago
> The “old ones” brought a lot of maturity, practices (TDD, tests, even XP at times) and loved mentoring the super enthusiastic grads.
You do realize that most people in their 20's have many years of experience and know all of those things? Young doesn't mean inexperienced.
- t-writescode 6y agoImagine how much more even more experienced developers can bring to the table, especially if they've been keeping up and growing :)
- username90 6y agoThe few who continues to grow after 10 years gets into extremely well paid positions and have no problems getting jobs. We aren't talking about them here, we are talking about the majority who never grow out of their senior engineer position. They aren't more valuable after 20 or 30 years than they were at 10 since they stopped growing, and this is the majority of people in every field. You don't fix age discrimination by saying that old people are better, because in most cases they aren't, instead you fix it by saying that if you have 2 persons with similar skills then you shouldn't automatically pick the less experienced younger person. If you only hire old developers when they have all of the awesome skills people tout in these threads then you will mostly hire young developers since so few developers have those skills no matter what age they are.