You’re suspicions and frustrations are valid and are based on your experience alone. No one else here was in those interview rooms with you and if you subconsci

You’re suspicions and frustrations are valid and are based on your experience alone. No one else here was in those interview rooms with you and if you subconsciously picked up on the presence of an age bias you probably weren’t pulling it out of thin air. In my experience in multiple industries as both interviewer and interviewee I’ve felt similar biases and often had them inarguably confirmed. And I’m somewhat ashamed to say that I’ve partially acted on such biases as well in rare cases. Interviewees deserve better treatment and more transparency, period. No one should have the right to exert that kind of toxic power dynamic on a fellow professional. I’m 32 in a new workplace in SF and I can already feel the subtle force of ageism lurking in the subtext of interactions with coworkers. I appreciated this post, thank you for speaking out on this. PS I love white-boarding.