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From my experience hiring in startups (and personal life experience, having left the startup world at 28), over-30s have higher salary requirements than startup
by robbrit 7y ago
From my experience hiring in startups (and personal life experience, having left the startup world at 28), over-30s have higher salary requirements than startups can afford. It's not even just a Bay Area thing; in pretty much all markets you pay a premium for experience.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoIf you can’t afford the salary required to hire the right people, then you’re not a start-up, you’re a side project looking to rip other people off by suckering them into accepting meaningless equity. The ageism stems from having a harder time suckering older applicants. It’s disingenuous to use language making it sounds like the older candidates’ requirements are “too high.” It’s not about that. It’s about who can this self-absorbed start-up sucker.
- PorterDuff 7y agoI think I'd be happy to work on something interesting for crummy money. The trick is the interesting part.
- systemtest 7y agoI'd rather take more money, retire in my 30s and work on my personal projects from that point on.
- PorterDuff 7y agoIf I was 30+ years younger, I would consider that. One problem is being old school enough that it's darned difficult to work for free.
- robbrit 7y agoDownside is that a lot of startups are not that interesting. They're just filling a business niche.