I think many folks inside the industry and out fail to understand how there are at least two tracks in engineering jobs.
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They're most succinctly broken down by "At age 35 have you been maintaining a cost center for 10 years?"
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Silicon Valley has these jobs, too, but forgets about them because developing beating-heart-of-business products is a galaxy from them.
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But the low-status jobs dominate engineering employment. And the people who work on them become something akin to a class.
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That class has different views on ageism, H1B, and tightness of engineering market, views so divergent that cool kids think them delusional.
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It's really difficult to change engineering class, because you don't just have to learn new technology (though you do). You need a way in.
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I will buy a copy.
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