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I work in a corporation that has annual waves of attrition. When one of these waves occurs, people in less profitable divisions get laid off and occasionally get re-purposed to serve in more profitable divisions.
My division picked up a large set of senior developers whose divisions were recently demolished. These uncles are significantly older than us and some of them have to serve managers/team leaders who are 10+ years younger than them. Naturally, there's quite a bit of resentment going on.
One interesting difference I see between these re-purposed uncles and de-novoly recruited older employees is that the former tend to exhibit many symptoms of know-it-all junior developers:
- Defensive about reviews/criticisms
- Whine about the code being garbage
- Deride existing technologies as being outdated/dinosaur/not as good as what they use
- Try to push outrageous refactors/platforms
- Paying attention to minor details are a waste of time
For those of you who also work in corporate environments, is this a common phenomenon?
My division picked up a large set of senior developers whose divisions were recently demolished. These uncles are significantly older than us and some of them have to serve managers/team leaders who are 10+ years younger than them. Naturally, there's quite a bit of resentment going on.
One interesting difference I see between these re-purposed uncles and de-novoly recruited older employees is that the former tend to exhibit many symptoms of know-it-all junior developers:
- Defensive about reviews/criticisms
- Whine about the code being garbage
- Deride existing technologies as being outdated/dinosaur/not as good as what they use
- Try to push outrageous refactors/platforms
- Paying attention to minor details are a waste of time
For those of you who also work in corporate environments, is this a common phenomenon?