MongoDB conducted a survey on business and developers. The participants were both developers and IT professionals who make IT decisions. Both groups stated that developers today fully understand business goals and priorities.
A total of 1,516 professionals (760 developers and 756 IT decision-makers) from France, Germany and the United Kingdom participated in the survey.
This research comes at a time when developers are considered an important factor in the success of a business (combined with advanced technology, increased use of the cloud and other IT systems).
However, the research found that there is a striking difference between programmers who began careers in the 1980s and those who started in the 2000s. The difference has to do with how they perceive the goals of the business and the extent to which they comply with them.
The vast majority (93%) of developers aged 25 to 44 believe that their industry and IT managers agree on the decisions they make and the strategies they follow. Only 62% of developers aged 55 and older expressed the same opinion.
This agreement or disagreement, respectively, affects various areas of a business.
The same generational difference was observed in programmers' attitudes towards the technology and software used by businesses: 91.6% of programmers aged between 25 and 34 agree with the choices made by businesses. In contrast, only 66.7% of older programmers agreed with businesses.
What is the reason for this behavior of senior developers? Why is there no agreement with the business goals and views of IT managers?
There can be many reasons. Older developers may be treated a little racist by companies because of their age.
For example, former IBM (older) had accused the company of firing them and replacing them with younger programmers to create a cooler image.
Oracle has also been accused by former employees for the same reason .
However, there are others who argue that the key criterion for keeping a job is performance. If someone does their job well, it is difficult to be fired.
