[Nursie]

Not true everywhere.

As an older engineer you might not get the new, cool, bleeding edge project. But then you might also not be expected to work 15 hour days.

I call that a win.

(I'm mid 30s and while I may not put out as many lines of raw code as I used to, I understand what I'm doing far better, have a good understanding of development process and tools, and place high value on robust, supportable code as compared to most of the younger engineers I've worked with recently - i.e. I'm far more productive, even if I look like I'm doing less!)

[Nursie]

All that said, I've just been reviewing some code written by fellow not-in-their-20s engineers here and I think I'm going to have to go and vomit somewhere.

Maybe it's just fair to say that age can season, temper and improve a good engineer. It doesn't with all of them.

[afarrell]

Age does not equal wisdom. Age times paying attention equals wisdom.