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Ageism is a thing but I don't think it is always due to the fact that you are "old". Companies turn old people away because they do not want to pay for "experie
by cbushko 5y ago
Ageism is a thing but I don't think it is always due to the fact that you are "old". Companies turn old people away because they do not want to pay for "experience".
Why pay twice as much for an experienced developer when you can get a fresh new grad that is "just as productive"?
Companies often ignore the fact that there is an experienced Senior Developer sitting in the corner telling that productive Junior Developer what pitfalls to avoid and how to get things done.
- spfzero 5y agoAnd then there's the whole thing about measuring productivity. It's very hard for many managers to understand the qualitative status of a codebase, and to connect future task effectiveness with past decisions that affected that quality. So the average manager doesn't actually know how to judge productivity. I don't think they think they know, and just are mistaken. I think they know they don't know. So what do they have to go on? Pay, and conformity with their own set of best-loved personality traits (called "cultural fit").