Computer science is constantly evolving and people get tired of continuously challenge themselves. There other priorities and hitch come into the equation like family etc. What is the ratio of 40+ ICs in your teams/companies? What usually people take as a next step in their careers?
they get better and usually paid more
This is not true for large majority of folks. People don't get better as they age, if anything majority lags behind on the knowledge of new trends/technologies. Keeping up the latest requires lot of bandwidth which folks in their 40's don't have.
I only have my own case and the colleagues worth keeping in touch with as datapoints. We’re making 3-5x what we made in our 20s and we’re better than we’ve ever been. I guess some people have fallen off, but largely I think what you said and what may be a commonly held belief is just wrong.
Considering the amount of suicide contemplation in the Google channel, I’d be surprised if any of us will even make it to age 40
That bad dude, honestly? Been reading about it, but I don't really believe it
Become a PM
Good engineer will never become PM
Or engineers don’t know how to become a good PM
Too many to count :\ , so don’t worry
They die, as everyone eventually
And then we have an afterlife :) Source: Trust me bro
That not guaranteed, bro. But what I said is 100% truth
They join Amazon and make a living doling out PiP.
Eyooo
Die
They get taken behind the shed to go to a better place
But then they come back right, right?
…yes
Some of them have enough money and coast and think about retirement
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EM, retire?
So every engineer can become EM when they are 40? What if not everyone?
Retire? I wish.