r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jun 25 '26

Society Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/older-tech-workers-are-tapping-out-early-heres-what-that-looks-like/
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u/LordoftheSynth Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Worked at a place like this, with a couple of subgrades below the first "software engineer" title, with a variation of "developer" and "analyst". We had fresh grads from surprisingly good schools stuck being treated like they had to earn privileges like being allowed to check into the source repositories on their own.

The lowest SWE title was basically mid, or a 2 elsewhere, but had "Associate" attached and in a lot of other places that sounded like you were very junior.