Re:What Happens to Older Developers?
by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @11:18AM
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Of course, this is probably a major contributing factor to companies having trouble hiring programmers. Finding someone with the exact experience of your current problem is actually pretty difficult.
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Its kind of stupid really.
In my past maintenance programming jobs, I would say it took 6 months to get up to speed. I would put less than two months of that down to new languages. Most of it is getting to know the code that is already written (and usually poorly documented) and some of it is gaining domain knowledge.