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50+ aren't really retirees though, they're just older workers. How many 65+ SW devs do you know with up to date marketable skills?
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
50+ aren't really retirees though, they're just older workers.
How many 65+ SW devs do you know with up to date marketable skills?
- throwaway5959 4y agoThey’re all retired, they’ve done very well for themselves and still hack for fun (and have fun associated hobbies like Ham and electronics).
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoThat was exactly my point. Retirees in tech aren't coming back out of retirement to work in flavor of the month framework and modern agile cargo cult.
- throwaway5959 4y ago> modern agile cargo cult. Hear hear.
- JohnFen 4y agoI know a fair number of 65+ SW devs that are still working and their skills are as up-to-date as anyone else's. There are two such engineers on my team right now. (For the record, I am not a sprightly 20something, but I also am not nearing retirement yet.)
- throwaway5959 4y agoThat’s great! What kind of work does your team do?
- JohnFen 4y agoIt primarily develops deep learning vision systems.
- jonfw 4y agoI work with two developers in that age ballpark who are experts in the field we work in (cloud). And what does “up to date” mean? Have you seen the kind of tech that insurance companies, etc. use? To most companies, go is still a verb and rust is still something that happens to metal