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> the interview process can stay irrational much longer than I can stay solvent You're still looking at this as a matter of how well you can play the game, no

> the interview process can stay irrational much longer than I can stay solvent You're still looking at this as a matter of how well you can play the game, not whether it's actually a fair game anyone should have to play. That still doesn't answer the OP's question, and I'm not interested in a strategy discussion right now. I've had plenty of those. If you can't bring yourself to think or talk about social problems as they might affect others, then we have no common ground or reason to engage with one another.

scarface74 7y ago
I’m not saying that it is discrimination. I’m saying that everyone has the same opportunity to ramp up to acquire the appropriate skills whether young or old. If I, who came from a no name school in the 90s, could theoretically qualify for the same job as someone who graduated from a top 10 school just by studying, how much more egalitarian can you get than that? It isn’t any more discriminatory that a new college graduate has recently learned skills that an older developer will have to learn on his own than it is that I had to learn C# or Java on my own to be competitive since neither existed when I graduated from college and a new college grad could learn those languages in school. We all signed up for field that requires constant learning and evolving with the landscape. I’ve been programming since 1986 in 65C02 assembly language in 6th grade. I’ve known exactly what I was signing up for the day I stepped foot on a college campus in 1992. If someone has to put forth a little effort to qualify for a job that puts you well into the top decile of income - it’s not a bad tradeoff.
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