TwirlyDumpling
TwirlyDumpling

Employment opportunities after the age of 40 for software engineers in India?

I am always worried about the employment opportunities we would get as software engineers after the age of 40 in India. I am currently 30 and need to plan my retirement financially.. so just trying to understand how the scene is after 40 in IT industry and which path is more promising for a longer career - managerial roles or technical roles?

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CosmicLlama
CosmicLlama

It will be very poor. Why? Cost reduction is the only strategy for IT companies. This is why, every company has a pyramid structure, with a huge number of freshers and very little upper management.
In IT companies the retirement age will be 50-55. Any person who looses in job in mid 40s , unless lucky will not find another job.
A relative of mine was a sales director in a big MNC. The unit was sold off to another company and people lost jobs. He never found another job. He was 52 at the time of firing.

SparklyJellybean
SparklyJellybean
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If you are in non technical role, then you should be leading sizable team members,
handling delivery challenges, bringing business (directly indirectly). But you should not just मुकादम😀

If you are in technically role, then also you need to very good at it (in your industry, domain etc).
You can be handling Enterprise Architect or Senior solution Architect kind of role.

If you are not in high growth areas then management role will be limited or risky to layoff.

If you are technically really good then can remain in technical senior roles. On Multinational product based companies it will be very valuable. It may not that valued in Indian IT companies (infy, wipro, tcs etc)

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