> It's simply old fashioned thinking. CEOs are typically older, and the current crop were trained before computers really proliferated business.
It's really not this at all. It's not a generational thing and it's not an old-fashioned thing. The ultimate rule of workplace dynamics is whether your position is seen as a cost center or a profit center. In software, most often your job is treated as a cost center.
My company is the third tech company from a repeat founder who is younger than me (he's 29) and was previously acquired by a huge tech company. He absolutely sees the work as I do as commodity and doesn't understand what I do or what its value is. I've built rock-solid, scalable systems, envisioned and built tools that will bring us more (and better clients) and saved my company hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year. If I don't fight for the projects I want to do and push back against bad ideas, I get tasked with essentially pointless "tech janitor" work.
I've encountered non-technical executives well into their 60s who deeply understand the value of tech. You just have to find people to work for that aren't idiots.
It's really not this at all. It's not a generational thing and it's not an old-fashioned thing. The ultimate rule of workplace dynamics is whether your position is seen as a cost center or a profit center. In software, most often your job is treated as a cost center.
My company is the third tech company from a repeat founder who is younger than me (he's 29) and was previously acquired by a huge tech company. He absolutely sees the work as I do as commodity and doesn't understand what I do or what its value is. I've built rock-solid, scalable systems, envisioned and built tools that will bring us more (and better clients) and saved my company hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year. If I don't fight for the projects I want to do and push back against bad ideas, I get tasked with essentially pointless "tech janitor" work.
I've encountered non-technical executives well into their 60s who deeply understand the value of tech. You just have to find people to work for that aren't idiots.