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Default Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg

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An anonymous reader sends this quote from an opinion piece at Bloomberg: "Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35. Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills &mdash; such as the latest programming-language fad &mdash; or 'not suitable for entry level.' In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn&rsquo;t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40. Employers have admitted this in unguarded moments. Craig Barrett, a former chief executive officer of Intel Corp., famously remarked that 'the half-life of an engineer, software or hardware, is only a few years,' while Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has blurted out that young programmers are superior."

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