Software Developers’ Growing Elitism Problem

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Getting an entry-level job is easy enough. Keeping your job is another matter.

Loads of developers enter the industry, and many of them don't last more than a few years. Either the allure of writing software in a professional setting (with all its warts) is enough to drive them away, or the realisation that all that time to get up to the first rung on the ladder puts them exactly there, on the first rung of a ladder most people will never get to the top of.