Some more food for thought. There's actual evidence that being a pragmatic ******* (aka. a disagreeable boomer that refuses to adapt, the managers that want people to work at work during COVID but stay at home to work themselves, the millennial that doesn't give a **** about old ways and comes in with a sledgehammer, etc.) increases "success."
The way I've seen this manifest itself at a traditional workplace (average age 40+) versus a FAANG (average age 20-30) is different but equally brutal.
The traditional workplace consists of upper management that care more about maintaining existing order purely driving off ego because "don't fix what isn't broken." You can throw all the stats you want at them, but ego isn't rationale and it's a dick sucking contest. This leads to massively mismanaged projects because **** hits the fan even if some see it coming. Of course the managers will be fine though; just blame the front line guys and fire them.
A FAANG (or tech startup, we're really looking at average employee age) is just straight pragmatic brutality. IBM, Amazon, and Firefox all had very objective ways of measuring performance. Managers are expected to code. You will get let go if this drops and you're expected to learn outside of work or get thrown out. Ageism, as a result, is very real in software development; it's probably gonna get worse until a FAANG gets sued (Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination | Hacker News lol they did get sued already.)
So for anyone reading this that's young and has a tendency to be highly disagreeable: go be an ******* and rise up. It's worked for previous generations and it's still working for the new gen.
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