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

Gerald,

I'm not seeking information like that now, so I can't answer your question
with survey data. My experience across a wide range of customers is the
younger folks tend to be more driven and work longer hours to achieve the
same level of efficiency as the older folks do in 40 hours. Eventually they
hours/efficiency curve merge at after about 15 years in the business. That
does not necessarily translate into more hours on the job for the younger
folks, just longer to provide deliverables.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Gerald Magnuson
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

you are finding young people wanting to work over 40 hours per week?
we find our younger developers are strict 8 to 5...
now we do find they spend off hours reading and surfing to better their
craft...

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Holger,

We are finding on the west coast of the US, California primarily but
the entire coast, is about half the developers working in the tech
sector never went to additional schooling after high school. They get
hired on, work
80-90 hours/week and in two years are as productive as 10 year vets in the
industry. What they don't have is the industry and life experiences
needed
to produce applications that are effective in a business environment.
Companies are relying on those of us with some grey hair to provide
that perspective.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Holger Scherer
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:35 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

Maybe this will help your determination - here in Germany i know of a
lot of IBM i shops where >50% of the developers do not have any grade
which is IT related...

-h




Am 11.06.15 um 23:29 schrieb Jim Oberholtzer:

This is but one small slice of data used to determine the suggested
directions.

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