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Hey All! Hopefully you brillant engineers can help. Im in sales and half the $hit you all talk about makes no sense to me recruting wise. My Dad is 60, been in computer engineering for 30+ years mostly in C++. Mostly legacy companies (Boeing, Siemens, etc). He’s planning to work for another decade before retiring (when my mom turns 65 so they can avoid paying for healthcare). His newer management has outsourced most of his teams work overseas and he now just has to sit back and fix the errors, rather than writing the code himself. Not what he signed up for, or what he’s really interested in. Ask: If he begins looking for a new role, what languages does he nees to be profiecient in? Any recommendations for training/ learning material?Obviously his age is against him but with 10 years left, he should still have plenty left in the tank. He’s actually pretty excited for a fresh start. He’s in St. Louis, and is open to office work in the area or remote work. He works remote full time currently. Thanks in advance.
He has 30 years of experience and most of it using C++. C++ is still a very used language and there’s no way in hell any employer is going to think about considering a 60 year old who’s just picking up a new language. Like I don’t want to be a Debby downer but dude gotta face reality, he needs to stick with the old guard if he wants to move, or go into management/consulting but that would be closer to what he’s doing now.
So don’t worry about learning anything new and just float a resume with C++ and see what bites? He’s fine with sticking to it, I just wanted to know if he needed to learn anything new to be considered. I’m in sales, all that matters in our world is how much revenue we brought in lol
60 and want to code for another 10 years? Wow that's good. I'm already planning how I can retire when I turn 45 lol. Your father should start AMA thread.
If he wants a remote job, he should look at openings at companies that hire remote folks (e.g. Stripe) and spend some time learning the basics of the technologies they use (e.g. Ruby). Google use C++ a lot, and have a lot of more experienced ICs. But they generally don’t hire remote folks.
Some companies will pay top dollar for Cobol and C. Or he can learn javascript or python