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Lots of people think that the answer is "badly", but we don't really know. My personal experience (I'm 44) is that I've been offered every job I've interviewed
by pacaro 9y ago
Lots of people think that the answer is "badly", but we don't really know. My personal experience (I'm 44) is that I've been offered every job I've interviewed for, passed every phone screen etc.
Many older developers of my acquaintance are happy where they are, they just don't move very often.
With newcomers to the industry we see a reasonable cross section, but with more experience, the sample becomes confounded by many other factors.
- concede_pluto 9y agoThis. At 47 I'm 13-2 in interviewing, where one of the rejections was mutual (a recruiter added bullshit to my resume and sent me for an obviously bad fit) and the other was Palantir years ago (coding didn't go badly, I think it was culture fit). I've never practiced for interviewing and I'm pretty suspicious that you only need to if you've spent your career gluing together code you don't understand. I've been worried about ageism but it hasn't kicked in yet.