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Interesting choice of words, but unfortunately there isn't really anything you can do about discrimination in a tech job interview in California, especially age
by vaxman 7y ago
Interesting choice of words, but unfortunately there isn't really anything you can do about discrimination in a tech job interview in California, especially age discrimination and the authorities don't send secret shoppers into the tech interview process so it continues. I suspect you are over educated (which is not a bad problem to have, except it will cloud your judgment until you dumb down a bit).
- twunde 7y agoskissane isn't stating that there's no discrimination, just that legally the practice of (algorithm-based) tech interviews is unlikely to be found discriminatory in a US court of law. Yes, there definitely is discrimination to be found, although typically it's not as overt as IBM's age discrimination. Talking about age discrimination in particular, it's difficult since often older hires may not have the shiny new skill on their resumes or may have something indicating that this person may not be keeping up with tech (the bias). One of the weirdest things about joining a startup is realizing that 98% of engineers are in their 30s or 20s, while not having any engineers in their 50s, 60s or 70s.