How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?

Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by 0x49 on Monday October 19, 2015 @11:08AM (#10413362)

I would be wondering why a company is completely changing their stack after 3 months. Im in my late 30s and 9/10 times, my experience is that its for the wrong reasons.

Older and more experienced devs have a hard time seeing poor decision after poor decision being made and just following the path to failure.

Why? Weve seen it too many times and also have seen too many companies go under as a result.

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Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by vonmoltke on Monday October 19, 2015 @01:49PM (#10414446)

I almost said "three weeks", but decided to back off on the hyperbole.

Yes, resistance to "flavor of the week" stack changes is definitely something that would turn poorly-managed companies off experienced devs. Companies still tend to be short-sighted on their experience requirements, though.

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Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by pm90 on Monday October 19, 2015 @07:02PM (#10416386)

A company is only as good as its leaders. When the senior engineer in the team is knowledgeable and trusted by others in the team, it is a lot more likely that such futile efforts will not be undertaken.

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