Age and experience, which elsewhere get people promoted, are no help in the IT industry; on the contrary, there is a distinct bias in favor of youth. Nowadays the average software-engineering qualification becomes obsolete in around five years, so a student fresh out of college may be more valuable to a company than a 30-year-old. - The Economist, March 29,2001
Five years after finishing college, about 60 percent of computer science graduates are working as programmers; at 15 years the figure drops to 34 percent, and at 20 years - when most are still only age 42 or so - it is down to 19 percent. Clearly part of this attrition is voluntary, but most are forced to seek other work when they see the handwriting on the cubicle wall: Employers do not want to hire older programmers. - National Survey of College Graduates, 1999
Only 2% of hiring managers would seek an IT worker having more than 10 years of experience. - Informationweek Survey, March 12, 2000
Once word gets around among the students about the short-lived careers in this field, employers may well find in the coming years that their current hiring policies deter students from majoring in computer science. If at the same time, the world supply of H-1Bs decreases due to development of software industries abroad (as predicted by the Stanford Computer Industry Project in 1995, and coming true in 2000, when Germany, England, Japan and Israel all were considering starting ``H-1B'' programs of their own), U.S. employers will indeed have shot themselves in the foot. -Debunking the IT Labor Shortage, August 2000, Dr. Normal Matloff, UCDavis
Graham Miller, current Stanford computer science student, is already thinking about what will be his exit strategy from the CS field. ``Programmers only last up to 10 years or so,'' Miller said. ``After that, you need to find something else to do.'' New York Times, January 12, 2000
Five years after finishing college, about 60 percent of computer science graduates are working as programmers; at 15 years the figure drops to 34 percent, and at 20 years - when most are still only age 42 or so - it is down to 19 percent. Clearly part of this attrition is voluntary, but most are forced to seek other work when they see the handwriting on the cubicle wall: Employers do not want to hire older programmers. - National Survey of College Graduates, 1999
Only 2% of hiring managers would seek an IT worker having more than 10 years of experience. - Informationweek Survey, March 12, 2000
Once word gets around among the students about the short-lived careers in this field, employers may well find in the coming years that their current hiring policies deter students from majoring in computer science. If at the same time, the world supply of H-1Bs decreases due to development of software industries abroad (as predicted by the Stanford Computer Industry Project in 1995, and coming true in 2000, when Germany, England, Japan and Israel all were considering starting ``H-1B'' programs of their own), U.S. employers will indeed have shot themselves in the foot. -Debunking the IT Labor Shortage, August 2000, Dr. Normal Matloff, UCDavis
Graham Miller, current Stanford computer science student, is already thinking about what will be his exit strategy from the CS field. ``Programmers only last up to 10 years or so,'' Miller said. ``After that, you need to find something else to do.'' New York Times, January 12, 2000
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