Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by borplk 1496 days ago
It is mostly true.

The worst part is in this industry even your junior peers will tend to not respect your experience/wisdom. They will view you as a grumpy grandpa who rants about the good old days. Let alone non-peers.

Whereas in many other industries it's not like this. A senior surgeon or pilot is always respected by their junior peers. They can brag about having done 10,000 successful flights or surgeries etc... but in our field there's no similar metric that is valued.

The exception is if you are a superhero god-level famous IC which most of us are not.