I often hear that tech companies are disproportionately young because the field has grown so much => most qualified people are young. But..
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... this doesn't seem to match the data on degrees granted. What gives? https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp …https://datausa.io/profile/cip/110701/#workforce_age …
You might argue that there are proportionally more non-degreed people now than before. Maybe true, but that contradicts the stories I hear
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There seems to be something funny about that data -- do 25% of degreed cs folks (& 33% of young cs folks) really have a masters?
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I think that's people who get their BS outside of the US and then come here for an MS, which indicates a hole in the BS data...
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My impression is that people who can avoid staying "just an engineer" do. It's a lousy proposition.
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Pays okay, but not as well as "engineer-plus" specialties like data science, growth hacking, etc. Quality of work's okay, but ditto.
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There's also the possibility that those who earned BS degrees more recently have more theoretical perspective.
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I think the truth is the companies are vying for relatively cheap labor. Inexperienced and recently trained is attractive.
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could also be that degree count doesn't necessarily represent the available workforce. I know several folks who retired early.
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Maybe people change jobs disproportionately when young, so young or fast-growing co's are disproportionately young?
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You have to look beyond CS degrees. Lots of chem (me), physics, engg, math PhDs working in HPC and beyond.
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on a related note, many folks with a PhD in computational chemistry are well-qualified to do machine learning software.
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