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Doctors working well into their 60s or 70s? Yes Coders? Never. Interview for medical job: Normal Coders?: Often humiliating
by anthony_barker 10y ago
Doctors working well into their 60s or 70s? Yes
Coders? Never.
Interview for medical job: Normal
Coders?: Often humiliating
- pacaro 10y agoI don't think we'll know the answer to the age question for a little while. The number of coders has been growing over time, so the potential pool of seriously older coders (60+ for sake of argument) is already small to start with. Anecdotally, three very different examples: my mother (71) stopped coding in 1969 Guido van Rossum (60) is still coding Darryl Havens (61) is Distinguished Engineer at Amazon - not per se a coding role, but definitely an engineering role
- nommm-nommm 10y agoWhat? I work with 60+ year old coders. I guess your 22 year old founder of a trendy Bay Area startup would have a problem hiring a 60 year old but that's both silly and illegal. I'm not sure trendy Bay Area startups attract the 60+ crowd anyway.
- kwhitefoot 10y agoThere are plenty of coders in their 60s, I'm one of them. You don't think computer programming was invented in the dot com boom do you? I have colleagues still coding who are in their 70s. And no we aren't all coding in Cobol or Fortran 4. I do agree though that it would be difficult for most of us to get new jobs in another company as developers because of the age-ist behaviour of many of our younger colleagues.