Older Employees and Younger Managers
Age Is a State of Mind—Until You’re Reporting To Someone Half Your Age
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The recent Stack Overflow survey for 2021 brought home a demographic fact of life in the IT world: the community is very, very young.
Take a look at the drop that occurs after age 44. If you total the age 45 and above percentages, you get almost 89.94 percent. In other words, nearly 90 percent of all software developers are younger than 45. That’s a lot of (relatively) young people.
In Silicon Valley, the situation is arguably even more extreme. According to the settlement of a recent age discrimination lawsuit against Google, the median age there in 2017 was only 28, which is about a decade younger than the median age of all US workers.
