> I wish we had more focus in allowing people to transition back from taking a few years off to raise young kids, and it wasn't automatically assumed that you w

> I wish we had more focus in allowing people to transition back from taking a few years off to raise young kids, and it wasn't automatically assumed that you would be a worse founder or professor or software engineer just because you have 2-4 years you didn't commercially work. I don't know about you but I'm pretty certain I'd be a worse SWE after 4 years break. Worse than I was before the break and much worse than I'd have been if I didn't take the break (and not just because I would have become better with practice but also because being a good SWE means keeping up with new stuff happening all the time). I personally see it as dropping a level on the company engineering ladder, it's not the end of the world but it's definitely a regression, regardless of the reason for the break.