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You might be right. I am ~45 years old and have been doing R&D programming for about ~25 years. I have known strong performers of all ages, and seen attrition h

You might be right. I am ~45 years old and have been doing R&D programming for about ~25 years. I have known strong performers of all ages, and seen attrition happen at all ages as well. I did go through some FANG type interviewing about 10 years ago, ending without an offer. I don't think they rejected me for being ~35, but I imagine they may have decided there wasn't a "cultural fit". There was something a little Lord of the Flies about the experience, which I might have grossly summarized at the time as having been interviewed by a bunch of little kids. I didn't resent this, so much as think I had dodged a bullet.

pmiller2 7y ago
> There was something a little Lord of the Flies about the experience, which I might have grossly summarized at the time as having been interviewed by a bunch of little kids. I didn't resent this, so much as think I had dodged a bullet. I recently had a similar experience at Cruise Automation. Of my 4 interviewers, none had been with the company more than a year, and at least two looked like they were in their 20s. The younger interviewers were the ones doing "coding" interviews, rather than system design, and their questions were straight up pulled from leetcode.com. Apparently, I "struggled" in one interview, because I was only able to answer one question and part of the second one. What I actually struggled with was trying to prove that the algorithm I was using was optimal, which seemed important at the time. C'est la vie. I later heard from some fairly reliable sources that the place was kind of a shit show, so I also feel like I dodged a bullet or two there.