Comment by nnq

When will we get it that in real life, people don't have "first priorities" just as they don't have "arch enemies"? :) Really, any sane not-overworked not-burned-out team will benefit from older more experienced devs in it. If you're overworking the shit out of everybody, of course that the older-with-kids guys will underperform. But if you are overworking people like hell, it probably just means that you are doing things very inefficiently and compensating by "sheer work power" and shooting yourself in the foot by making the experience holders work at 40% of their top performance because of the environment (ok, I agree, this might be a good trade-off for some businesses). Chill out a bit, do things the right way and at the "natural" pace and you don't need to care about this "problem" or use the nine-to-five-with-kids stereotype. As one wise man told me once: you can't "move fast and break things" kiddo, because all that time spent fixing the things you break actually means that you're not moving as fast as you can or fast enough.