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If you are young and recently graduated with computer science you are hot in Boston. If you've been around a while and have a degree in anything else, or are s
by KevinMS 15y ago
If you are young and recently graduated with computer science you are hot in Boston. If you've been around a while and have a degree in anything else, or are self taught, companies like these will most likely just ignore you. That is their "hot market", I call it artificial scarcity.
- hga 15y agoIndeed. "Never trust anyone over 30" has become in our field "Seldom hire anyone over 30 and never hire anyone over 40" and most certainly 50. That you can get "Senior" prepended to your title after about 5 years of experience ought to be a warning sign. Due to genes that make me look (and for the most part feel) quite a bit younger than I'm (I'm now 50 and am still mistaken for a early to mid-20s college student (dress and deportment make a difference, of course)) I was able to experimentally, as it were, see this when I was in my 30s.