Comment With a bit of luck (Score 0) 33
It'll fall on and uncover MH370
the reason older developers are not hired is because they are perceived to not be willing to put in the hours that younger developers will.
Comparatively, to be fair an experienced older developer should have to spend less hours to produce quality code.
In the age of "screw everybody to get another quarter point from the stock", the ones in charge will never pay the older developers what they are worth. It doesn't matter that the inexperienced developers will make the huge mistakes the older people could have warned them away from. It doesn't matter that the degradation in product quality will likely have long term negative effects on the company. All that matters is short term financial gain by the executive staff in this country.
Indeed. And a good example of that is the direction Apple is currently taking (software wise).
they are too expensive
and a quick note about that: a competent manager should know it's worth paying someone twice to do a program 3 times faster that will not have to be rewritten 3 times by 3 different persons within the next 3 years.
Meaning, they are too expensive and are able to look through the incompetence of managers.
Which is the signature of a company to be avoided at all costs.
You know that taxi, right? It's the one you're stuck with because there's no alternative now.
That taxi, the one who insulted me when I dared to insinuate he took a longer path? The taxi as nice as a prison gate? And yet expecting a tip? Oh yes, unfortunately, I know.
Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
