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Is age discrimination a thing in hiring because: A: old developers cost too much? B: young developers are insecure or incompatible with old people? C: old de

• Nasrudith 7y ago
  I think E - because HR has vapor for brains. I know from my own job hunt experience I was largely ignored by many for lacking experience yet after I got the magical peak number I got call spammed for short term positions. And that looks sensible compared to the absolute madness of refusing to hire people for being unemployed that was more common in the great recession.
• mighty_bander 7y ago
  Yes. But mostly B in my experience. I went from being the spry youngster (mid-30s) at one company to being the old veteran at a startup, so this is a subject that is often on my mind. I have definitely seen things like the young people saying some piece of knowledge I have is "obsolete" because they think, for example, that ORMs are a bold new concept that will invalidate the need for databases, just like they were 15 years ago. Especially in node, which trends young, there's a lot of reinventing the wheel, mostly due to a lack of awareness of older tools, although also because of contempt for anything older than 12 months. I think another side of this is that the old folks are always telling the younger programmers "no." We've seen all the pitfalls, usually because we ignored our elders when we were spry, and we don't want younger programmers to make the same mistakes. What this comes out to is a lot of "do it my way," and then a bunch of predictions of doom that may befall you a year down the road. Nobody wants to hear that.