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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by masonic on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:21AM (#19509488) 

  most of the effort is keeping up with the constant churn of flavor-of-the-week
But that only applies to new and recent code bases.

The age purge is ongoing even for long-established, mature code bases and projects, e.g. IBM, HCL, etc.

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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by rhizome on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:24PM (#19517652)
It's been awhile, but I interviewed at LinkedIn some years ago and it sounded very much like an anything-goes ethic. It was based on feature ownership, so if you had an idea you could implement it however you wanted as long as you also supported it. I was left to think that flavor-of-the-week is very much a part of life there if a programmer wants it.
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