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I don't know that ageism in technology necessarily means that older students are less likely to be hired out of university. I would be interested in seeing data

• protomyth 10y ago
  > I don't know that ageism in technology necessarily means that older students are less likely to be hired out of university. If a company is less likely to hire a 35 year old or 40 year old professions that got out of college at the expected time with work experience, then a 35 year old graduate is going to have a much harder time. I cannot think of a situation where that wouldn't be true. I would bet it would even be worse because it deviates from the expected path (high school -> college [w/optional graduate work] -> work) at that time period in a person's life and that would be foreign and weird to many teams. As to the "right" school, that's quite a bit of the problem.
  • zerohp 10y ago
    You may be right, but I would be interested in seeing a study of ageism and non-traditional students. I am one. In my experience, and observation of other students like me, the situation is opposite to what you are saying. That said, none of my non-traditional student friends have sought jobs at companies or teams staffed primarily by 20-25 year olds. My observations are also skewed more toward hardware jobs, which seem to value older employees.