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It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director
New submitter NewYork writes with this chestnut from an article about the role of age in the high-tech workplace: 'The shelf life of a software engineer today is no more than that of a cricketer — about 15 years,' says V R Ferose, MD of German software major SAP's India R&D Labs that has over 4,500 employees . 'The 20-year-old guys provide me more value than the 35-year-olds do.'" The article features similar sentiments from Mukund Mohan, CEO of Microsoft's India-based startup initiative.
I do IT for a cricket league. My shelf life is only 15 minutes!
They referenced Q on Skyfall as an example. Idiot hooked up Silva's laptop to the MI6 network and then powered it up. An experienced IT person would know that would be a very stupid thing to do.
If you work in IT, learning new technology is part of your career, it never stops, you're doing it all the time.We know the old tech and the new tech. Anyone who states otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.
Never cut corners, nothing good comes out of cutting corners.
Unless you're Apple. Then you file for a patent.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"He will be forty one day too..."
He's 38, so it will be very soon.
Actually, we don't have to listen to that geezer.
carrier should be career. Who wrote this damn auto correct? Oh wait...
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