Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W...
by scarface74 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:49AM
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I'm in my mid 40s and active professional developer who goes back and forth between being a team lead, an architect, and a developer depending on what interest me at the moment.
I've found with older developers they fall in two camps - old set in their ways, didn't keep up with technology and its harder to teach them modern best practices. The other type are the ones who have learned a lot from their experience and are aggressive learners. I don't think older developers are ever "malleable" we are always stuck in our ways. Our ways just may be "this is the way I've always done it" or "I love technology and learn for the sake of learning" or "I learn aggressively to stay competitive".
As far as being 10x better, the other side of the coin is that it doesn't matter if you're 10x better if your skill set is more than the company needs.
If all your company needs is another CRUD app and you've gained expertise in AI, they aren't going to pay you more based on you being better.
I've found with older developers they fall in two camps - old set in their ways, didn't keep up with technology and its harder to teach them modern best practices. The other type are the ones who have learned a lot from their experience and are aggressive learners. I don't think older developers are ever "malleable" we are always stuck in our ways. Our ways just may be "this is the way I've always done it" or "I love technology and learn for the sake of learning" or "I learn aggressively to stay competitive".
As far as being 10x better, the other side of the coin is that it doesn't matter if you're 10x better if your skill set is more than the company needs.
If all your company needs is another CRUD app and you've gained expertise in AI, they aren't going to pay you more based on you being better.