Maybe not. There is more age discrimination in software than in other areas. But around 2000, it was out of control. There were fewer jobs and everyone wanted t

Maybe not. There is more age discrimination in software than in other areas. But around 2000, it was out of control. There were fewer jobs and everyone wanted to hire "the kids in the garage" type developers. If he was engineer-management he definitely wasnt needed because everyone was cutting down tech teams to a minimum. Many out-sourced their software jobs to India at this time. Some just got rid of those positions altogether just in case this Internet thing turned out to be a fad. It was a very confusing time. Just before the burst, kids couldnt figure out why companies wanted to hire them but dropped out of school to go for it anyway. After the burst loads of younger programmers went to law school for no reason and lots of older programmers went to work at bookstores to keep the lights on.