Maybe, but the typical person I have worked with in this industry is too smart to do something for 10 years and not learn much during that time.

I am afraid that this “1 year of experience 10 times” mantra gets trotted out to justify ageism more often than not.

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theshrike79 4 days ago | parent [-]

Depends a lot on the type of software you're doing. Startups will have hungry people willing to learn, more traditional companies won't in the same percentages.

Not all people are curious, they go to school, learn to code and work their job like a normal 9-5 blue collar worker. They go to company trainings, but they don't read Hacker News, don't follow the latest language fads or do personal software projects during nights and weekends. It's just a day job for them that pays for their non-programming hobbies.

I've had colleagues who managed the same ASP+Access DB system for almost a decade, with zero curiosity or interest to learn anything that wasn't absolutely necessary.

We had to drag them to the ASP.NET age, one just wouldn't and stayed back managing the legacy version until all clients had moved to the new stack.

...and I just checked LinkedIn, the non-curious ones are still in the same company, managing the same piece of SaaS as a Software Developer. 20-26 years in the same company, straight from school.

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disgruntledphd2 3 days ago | parent [-]

> ...and I just checked LinkedIn, the non-curious ones are still in the same company, managing the same piece of SaaS as a Software Developer. 20-26 years in the same company, straight from school.

And honestly, this should be OK. For a lot of people, they work to put food on the table and keep a roof over their head, and our society is structured like this for whatever reasons.

Not everyone needs to be learning and growing all the time. I personally like this, but I've worked with incredibly competent people who just had other interests outside of work, and had no desire to get promoted or work on different things.

Personally, I prefer (often) working with the learning and growing people, but sometimes you can learn a bunch from the stable people as they'll often have lots of hard won lessons caused by staying in the same place for a long time.

	▲	theshrike79 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Some people’s brains are just wired for that. There are people who are just fine being a cog in a machine doing the same thing all day for years on out. My family is from a factory town and many of them were literally standing next to a conveyor doing a monotonic task that could’ve done by a robot. I tried it for one summer job and my brain almost melted from the boredom and monotony.