That is becoming rarer and rarer off late. I think it’s the “5 year limit” that I have observed in batchmates, most of them don’t want to code any more, and have moved on to so many other fields. While that is okay, the problem is that it has become a fashion to dis IT and software field.

Yes, and even in some of the barcamps (at least in Hyderabad) you see people doing corporate style presentations or just selling their products – instead of discussing software.

The 5 year limit – I know a lot of people who say “Are you still coding? I thought you were an architect!” And when the response is “Yes, I do both” – the response is usually stunned silence. There is no meeting ground between people who understand programming/software and love doing it and people who consider IT as just another job where you get high salaries and become “executives” in suits after 5 years.