Was it? The reality is that you have someone who has benefited from having either a hugely beneficial nurtured environment or perfect DNA trying to espouse tha

Was it? The reality is that you have someone who has benefited from having either a hugely beneficial nurtured environment or perfect DNA trying to espouse that this is actually realistic for all engineers at amazon. It isn't! Trust me! Amazon grinds you as much as possible. If you imagine for a moment that you are a typical engineer at amazon and your ass will age like fine wine you are being totally and utterly manipulated. That being said, there are ways to succeed as you age. Working at amazon is not one of them. Specializing in engineering areas that require a track record of deliverables is. It's Bayesian probability. That is what your advantage is if you are old. Being trustworthy helps in things like security. Young kids between the age of 16-25 are freakin random and they might be the next snowden for all a manager knows. Older people who have never done anything irresponsible in their life can benefit here. Also, leveraging technologies in your resume that are once again fashionable. Devops in the cloud, neural networks in deep learning, etc. Is any of this fair? Of course the F not. But neither is being discriminated against because you're old.