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Yes, but the number of people wanting to do software over a certain age also goes down. I was working with a developer/tester in his early 70s until recently. H
by thorin 4y ago
Yes, but the number of people wanting to do software over a certain age also goes down. I was working with a developer/tester in his early 70s until recently. He's not working now but I messaged him the other day and he was working on so ML project in his own time. His previous companies would hire him back. Even I'm past mid 40s now and many of the team are older (although they're called architects now).
- tedivm 4y agoI just transitioned to a Principal Architect role so I find this comment to be kind of hilarious. From my personal anecdotal experience the ageism in tech may be better described as generationalism. It appears that companies don't mind hiring "older" people, but that there's a generational gap that companies are less likely to cross. As time moves on that generational gap also ages up.
- hhlevnjak2 4y agoAlso, there are more sw devs aged 20-30 today than there were 20-30 years ago. Those who would be 50 today never existed in such numbers, so dev population is skewed towards younger generations.