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Should Younger Developers Be Paid More?
jammag writes "A project manager describes facing an upset senior developer who learned that a new hire — a fresh college grad — would be making 30 percent more than him. The reason: the new grad knew a hot emerging technology that a client wanted. Yes, the senior coder was majorly pissed off. But with the constant upheaval in new technology, this situation is almost unavoidable — or is it? And at any rate, is it fair?"
It is incumbent upon technologists to keep their knowledge fresh. Its his own fault for not recognizing the technology trends and pursuing them.
You are talking total crap, you know nothing about the situation. The older dev probably know the business inside and out, that's called experience. When they leave they create a huge knowledge gap which may well end up costing the company a lot of money, and needing to take on additional staff to hope to try to plug the gaps. I've been seeing this over and over. Any experienced dev can pick up $trendy_tech in no time at all. Ah, but now I see your handle, you talk shit all the time *sigh*.