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I wonder of part of the issue is that 40 years ago, people typically stayed much longer with companies. (I actually don't know what the norm was. My dad was a

• munk-a 3y ago
  Well 40 years ago stuff was absolutely laden with exploits... if you're talking about code written 40 years ago that we still use today? Most of that stuff is battle tested and came from teams that were highly disciplined to begin with - the good code floats.
• bakuninsbart 3y ago
  My dad is in his 60s, started his company with some friends in the 90s. None of them got super rich, but they are all doing well, and all slowly going into pension. The company grew to a mid-size level, but actually most of the early employees stayed, and I think the average tenure is still probably > 10 years. Switching jobs every 3 years is weird, it is pretty much the time it takes to learn the ins and outs deeply enough to be an expert. There's some sense to it, as after learning all you can, it might be better for your career to search for new challenges. There's also the nonsense that switching that often generally yields significantly higher pay.
• underlipton 3y ago
  It's impossible to stay long with companies. The nascence of "shareholder value" as an overriding concept means that if you're far more likely to be laid off, or forced to job-hop to maintain purchasing power, than to be able to stay with one business for years and still have a successful career. By companies' own policies, it has become untenable for them to train. So it's all on them. They've got to fix the issue (before the government does it for them).