Re: What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would not think that graduates in IT would relate to programmers on 
the job since many programmers are coming into their professions without 
degrees.

Jerry

On 6/11/2015 2:29 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> My reason for asking is to provide some informal unscientific evidence for a
> couple of projects I'm working on.
>
> Yes it does matter since the rate of graduates in IT in 2008 (the last data
> I have available at the moment) is about even to 1999.  Worse yet the
> percentage of IT graduates vs. other BS graduates have not really changed
> over the 13 years of data I'm looking at.   Yet the demand for developers is
> higher now than it was at the turn of the century.  So I'm trying to draw
> some conclusions that help our customers determine IT strategic directions.
>
>
> This is but one small slice of data used to determine the suggested
> directions.
>
> --
> Jim Oberholtzer