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Median age at Facebook is 28? Wow. https://www.businessinsider.com/median-tech-employee-age-chart-2017-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/median-tech-employee-ag

Median age at Facebook is 28? Wow. https://www.businessinsider.com/median-tech-employee-age-chart-2017-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/median-tech-employee-age-cha...

racl101 6y ago
I'd be a dinosaur there at 35 years old. That is one hip and happening company I tell you hwhat.
jedberg 6y ago
It's interesting to me that Netflix isn't on that list. Maybe because it ruins their stats. Totally anecdotal but I wouldn't be surprised if it were up there in the mid-high 30s. I'm having trouble thinking of anyone I knew there under 30 that wasn't in HR, recruiting, support, or facilities. There were just a few engineers under 30, and definitely a bunch over 50. And of course management was almost all 35+.
- filoleg 6y ago
  Netflix will definitely skew higher for one very obvious reason: back when i was looking into them a few years ago (not sure if anything has changed since then), they had no internship programs or entry-level postings. They were only hiring seniors and higher, and it was very explicit on their end, not just that i looked at them during a time period when they have already filled all of their entry-level roles. I just googled and verified that, sounds like it still holds. With that in mind, of course they will skew higher, since they don't hire any new grads.
  - xeromal 6y ago
    It makes sense. The problem they solve is not simple enough to onboard tons of jrs. You need pretty experiences devs to handle what they do.
kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
Zuck is on record saying he doesn't trust 30+ to write code.
- Diederich 6y ago
  Do you have a reference for this? Thanks.
  - x87678r 6y ago
    "Young people are just smarter." is what he said in 2007, I think he would be careful so that he would not say anything that controversial again.
    - larrik 6y ago
      I mean, he was only 23 then, and proving his own negative.
- mhh__ 6y ago
  Facebook's C++ library must be a disaster then (Andrei Alexandrescu)

Median age at Facebook is 28? Wow. https://www.businessinsider.com/median-tech-employee-age-chart-2017-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/median-tech-employee-age-cha...

racl101 6y ago

I'd be a dinosaur there at 35 years old. That is one hip and happening company I tell you hwhat.

jedberg 6y ago

It's interesting to me that Netflix isn't on that list. Maybe because it ruins their stats. Totally anecdotal but I wouldn't be surprised if it were up there in the mid-high 30s. I'm having trouble thinking of anyone I knew there under 30 that wasn't in HR, recruiting, support, or facilities. There were just a few engineers under 30, and definitely a bunch over 50. And of course management was almost all 35+.

filoleg 6y ago
Netflix will definitely skew higher for one very obvious reason: back when i was looking into them a few years ago (not sure if anything has changed since then), they had no internship programs or entry-level postings. They were only hiring seniors and higher, and it was very explicit on their end, not just that i looked at them during a time period when they have already filled all of their entry-level roles. I just googled and verified that, sounds like it still holds. With that in mind, of course they will skew higher, since they don't hire any new grads.
- xeromal 6y ago
  It makes sense. The problem they solve is not simple enough to onboard tons of jrs. You need pretty experiences devs to handle what they do.

kevin_thibedeau 6y ago

Zuck is on record saying he doesn't trust 30+ to write code.

Diederich 6y ago
Do you have a reference for this? Thanks.
- x87678r 6y ago
  "Young people are just smarter." is what he said in 2007, I think he would be careful so that he would not say anything that controversial again.
  - larrik 6y ago
    I mean, he was only 23 then, and proving his own negative.
mhh__ 6y ago
Facebook's C++ library must be a disaster then (Andrei Alexandrescu)