А вот и про американских программистов-неудачников после 30:

MIT alumni in their 50s
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/30/mit-alumni-in-their-50s/

The medical doctor was at the peak of his career and in no danger of being fired. The university professor had the security of tenure and was looking forward to a defined benefit pension starting six years from now. The corporate attorney was finishing up a prosperous career. The engineers who’d chosen to work in industry, however, were a varied lot. A woman who’d taken a job at a defense contractor was still there, 30 years later. The super-wizard Lisp Machine programmer was now in a senior technical, but non-supervisory role, at a multi-billion dollar dotcom (not necessarily getting paid more than a competent 30-year-old, however).

Понятное дело, что эмигранту из СНГ просто уехать в Штаты и быть там программистом — уже великое счастье и грандиозный успех. А так точно те же мысли, что и здесь всплывают с определенной периодичностью, в IT карьеры и успеха нет. При этом речь идет о выпускниках MIT.