Here, here. Watch this problem explode among traditionally non-tech professions.
Increasingly, you see super smart late-20s–early-30s professionals, with five or six years of solid domain-expertise, teaching themselves to code. They start using their programming knowledge to solve big problems and generally kick ass. Sounds great, right?
The problem: it's much better politics for the leadership to stuff these forward-thinkers into the lower castes, take credit for all their awesome work, and poach all their wisdom by proxy. Few entrenched managers will admit that "the help" has become the master. Moving out is the only way for these new hybrid-pros to move up.
Domain experience is VERY valuable in some fields. For some years, I've believed that hybrid degrees or education are the way forward for CS/programming.
Maybe someday we'll see accountants, medical doctors, civil engineers, researchers from all over science with a double major or mixed major (I think those are the correct US terms).
Also, a double degree with business knowledge as well (more general), kind of what programmers turn MBAs do, or the various Management of Technology degrees.
This is exactly was MIS--or Management Information Systems--is: a hybrid major between CS and some sort of Business focus.
Up until the dot-com boom of the late-'90s, this was the preferred degree for many corporate IT departments. In fact, the CFO was head of IT/MIS in many companies up until the mid-/late-90s.
Other hybrids are bioinformatics and cognitive science/computing.
Increasingly, you see super smart late-20s–early-30s professionals, with five or six years of solid domain-expertise, teaching themselves to code. They start using their programming knowledge to solve big problems and generally kick ass. Sounds great, right?
The problem: it's much better politics for the leadership to stuff these forward-thinkers into the lower castes, take credit for all their awesome work, and poach all their wisdom by proxy. Few entrenched managers will admit that "the help" has become the master. Moving out is the only way for these new hybrid-pros to move up.
(Thank your deity for YC, etc.)