Comment by jleyank

Be careful this isn’t an an excuse for ageism. Skills like problem solving, debugging,, planning, … these are invariants and always useful. The language or tool that is used will change, but the underlying process remains the same.

Medical and scientific fields have continuous learning via papers, conferences, even courses that update peoples skills. Also, there’s new ideas and methods coming in with new people who then get involved in the skill exchange once hired (latest synthesis ideas vs. Picking up medchem).

And it seems to be panic buying and selling in this field - inhaling anything with a pulse 5-7 weeks ago and now trying to lay off half the staff today or next week. Same problems, same market issues.

And if the damned SWE’s we’re valuable they’d give them proper working conditions. As somebody wrote, lawyers don’t do jira tickets.