Just to point out a counter-example. I worked at a decent-sized dev company where the median employee age was in the 40s. Many of the employees had been there for double-digit years. My experience at that company violated the demographic norms in a lot of ways actually -- great experiences in general.
For most companies, I have an unsubstantiated belief that a lot of devs switch to management as they get older. After 18 years dev experience, I feel like I'm finally getting to a good understanding of how to write software well. But I have come to the realization that a lot of my value is now in guidance and idea-development for the rest of the team.
Anyway, it's probably less about where older devs have gone and more about a huge influx of new devs skewing the ratio.
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Just to point out a counter-example. I worked at a decent-sized dev company where the median employee age was in the 40s. Many of the employees had been there for double-digit years. My experience at that company violated the demographic norms in a lot of ways actually -- great experiences in general.
For most companies, I have an unsubstantiated belief that a lot of devs switch to management as they get older. After 18 years dev experience, I feel like I'm finally getting to a good understanding of how to write software well. But I have come to the realization that a lot of my value is now in guidance and idea-development for the rest of the team.
Anyway, it's probably less about where older devs have gone and more about a huge influx of new devs skewing the ratio.