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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be aware that we have over a million foreign workers temporarily in the US doing IT work.

Any it keeps growing.   Anyone waiting for a green card can stay forever so the
Numbers grow and grow.

They are all desperate for a green card and with this huge supply they suppress wages and allow ageism to be rampant in IT field

It is not a career anymore but a 5 to 15
Year job path before you will be fired and replaced with an HXXXb[/quote]

This person has no idea what they are talking about.

I’m a 56 year old US born development manager and was just hired for a new role. Also, I’m actively hiring developers and happy to talk with people of any age. The reality is that 95% of the applicants we get are not US born, and those that do apply are often wildly unqualified (e.g. can’t answer the question “what’s a relational database”).  [/quote]

Culture has changed though.  Work has devolved into an "assembly line" type of situation where you are timed and constantly pressured to develop things as fast as possible at the expense of creativity and quality.  This has even penetrated consulting which used to be expertise driven field.  Agile and "sprinting" took all the joy out of being able to engineer interesting solutions and have time to solve problems instead of patching things up.  And this has become tough for older people to keep up too.  Many younger developers are on a fast moving treadmill and take ADHD drugs and anxiety meds.[/quote]
Agile has its place, but for large systems, it doesn't scale, and it actually makes the application harder to support long term. Too piecemeal.[/quote]

Yes, but it is still the "golden standard" and vastly used and pushed by various consultancies and management of the companies themselves.  It's miserable when it comes to complex development projects and large volume data related work. [/quote]
I know. It's unfortunate.  I'm working on an application right now that was developed using agile method, and five years out, it's a mess.  But it looked good on the slick presentations to the PMO.[/quote]

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