Since Huawei's shake-up (to dismiss older employees) event, but also a high-pressure high-paying Internet industry's "midlife" crisis also began to stand out, and attracted widespread attention.
Midlife crisis is not uncommon in all walks of life, but why the Internet industry's "midlife" crisis to add quotes it?
According to the information Baidu Encyclopedia, middle-aged people between the ages refers to the age of 40 -55 years old. Also it says that as well as improving delayed age at first marriage and childbearing age, life expectancy, now middle-aged should refer to the age group between 45 -60 years.
However, in the Internet industry, 35-year-old became a gulf Internet practitioners (especially programmer, programmer below as an example).
In this age limit, programmers are often faced with the situation fall behind, forward, is a job transfer; retire, resign or are dismissed.
So these young people age 35 to usher in the so-called "midlife" crisis.
Why, then, 35-year-old will become the Internet industry's "midlife" crisis? The reason is that the salient features of the Internet industry - high-pressure and high-paying.
996 Internet industry to work overtime is the norm (or reward), resulting in physical and mental programmers are faced with long-term high pressure, there have been all kinds of premature aging symptoms (really very bald head).
With age, the programmer will be more of this high-pressure work environment unbearable, thereby affecting productivity.
The Internet industry is paying though admirable, but also become the shackles of programmers.
35-year-old programmer due to years of accumulation, has a high wage (including stock options, etc.). And this for the company, is a huge human cost.
In the programmer's job, there are high and low points, low post like the workers on the assembly line, strong substitutability. A fresh recruit students to do, efficiency does not differ too much, but was able to wage much lower. Graduates and young and dynamic, able to withstand the high pressure of the normal 996.
In addition to the above two aspects, the environment factors can also affect the midlife crisis programmers.
For example, development of the Internet industry is already approaching saturation, dividend almost finished, almost blind expansion stopped, the capital began to shrink. For many companies, it used to be the value of priority, only the best; now it is cost priority, only the most cost effective. So those are not high cost of the old staff is facing a crisis.
还有一方面就是程序员的人才开始供大于求了。由于这些年来互联网行业的火热，不仅很多高校都开设了编程相关课程，而且社会上的速成培训班也如雨后春笋，形成了运动式的编程热。
而一旦互联网行业减缓了发展速度，就会造成人才需求的下降。那么每年新增的那些“未来码农”们就会因为通道的缩小而淤积在市场上。
根据经济规律，当供大于求时，自然就会造成市场价格的下跌。而对于公司来说，很难对公司内现有的老员工实行降薪。于是，减少老员工数量，增加新员工数量就成为了最好的人力成本战略。
于是，这些因素的综合作用，造成35岁就成为了互联网行业的“中年”危机。
因此，对于那些可能面临“中年”危机的程序员来说，不论是进还是退，都应该提前几年做一些准备。
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