I don’t see ageism in it. If you’re, say, six years out of school you are still quite young but your school skills that might give you an advantage at a whiteb

I don’t see ageism in it. If you’re, say, six years out of school you are still quite young but your school skills that might give you an advantage at a whiteboard will be pretty damn rusty. Interviews in general are not really “fair” since the employer really has no way to get out of a short meeting (or series of short meetings) what they really want to know. Given that it isn’t possible to have reasonable certainty and the massive cost of being wrong, a strategy of erring on the side of rejecting good candidates rather than accepting poor candidates isn’t unreasonable as long as you feel your pool of candidates is rich enough.