I got my BS in CS (US) from mid tier state school at the age of 38. I think getting a degree later in life is an advantage, people see my graduation date on my resume and assume I'm younger than I am. Some people say I look younger as well.
I'm a team lead now, and if anything, I see younger devs as a liability. IMO you gain a certain level of pragmatism and persistance from working on large (crappy) code bases for a few years. When faced with challenging bugs, I see some younger devs giving up too quickly.
It takes time to develop the 'large code base skill', and I'd rather not solve you're bugs while you do. Especially if you're telling me how great language X is, and we should move to it.
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I got my BS in CS (US) from mid tier state school at the age of 38. I think getting a degree later in life is an advantage, people see my graduation date on my resume and assume I'm younger than I am. Some people say I look younger as well.
I'm a team lead now, and if anything, I see younger devs as a liability. IMO you gain a certain level of pragmatism and persistance from working on large (crappy) code bases for a few years. When faced with challenging bugs, I see some younger devs giving up too quickly.
It takes time to develop the 'large code base skill', and I'd rather not solve you're bugs while you do. Especially if you're telling me how great language X is, and we should move to it.
Maybe you actually should move to language X.