57 year old software dev here. It does definitely get tougher to find and keep work as you get into your 50s. What I've found is that it's a lot easier to get a

57 year old software dev here. It does definitely get tougher to find and keep work as you get into your 50s. What I've found is that it's a lot easier to get a job at a company that's run by people my age or older. I've been at a few startups over the last several years where the CEOs or managers were around 60. The interviews are a lot easier - kind of like interviews were back in the 80s & 90s probably because those are the types of interviews they remember as well. Being of a similar age they also tend to figure that if you made it this far you're probably going to be a good worker. I've had way more autonomy in those situations than I've had at other companies where I had 30-something-year-old managers. Maybe I'm falling into some reverse-ageism here, but in my experience I'd rather work for someone closer to my own age or even older. Problem is that there are getting to be fewer and fewer of these options as people tend to retire in their 60s.