I know many oldies who should be fired immediately. Forget tech, they are not even able to manage teams properly.
Even so called "Seniors/Leads" don't know how to be one, if you question them, somehow it hurts their ego and you need to follow/respect them because they were born earlier ?
Tech should be limited to max till 12 years of work experience only, rest should transition into some other career, start your own startup or business or something but don't be an employee in a big company.
i think you are yet to meet a senior engineer. Remember "number of years means nothing , stuff you have done in those years does"
Someday you’ll also fall behind and will have to continue career as ur risk appetite is low. Maybe you’ll make genuine effort to match ur skill level to age but somewhere you will have a thought “Is this really worth spending my remaining life over?” Your body starts falling behind, responsibilities are never ending, life shows u many things… Anyway, you’ll get some answers as u age
I totally am aligned with the image and your headline. I disagree with your last para.
There are People who just want to be in tech even in their 40s. I don't think it's fair to put a number on who should be in tech and when
Unfortunately, YOE is the first line of any job description :(
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I have 1.5 YoE as a frontend developer in an early stage startup.
I need help with deciding where do I go from here? Do I deep dive into frontend? Do I try to move to full stack?
Things to consider:
