Other. I'm not looking for work because I'm already retired. :-P Before I retired (just over a year ago) my main reason would have been that I enjoyed the prob

Other. I'm not looking for work because I'm already retired. :-P Before I retired (just over a year ago) my main reason would have been that I enjoyed the problems I was working on and my coworkers. Even though I've barely touched a line of code since I quit, I still miss both. Also, I'd have to echo some of the other comments about modern tech interviews. I would have run the gauntlet again if I had really needed to, but I strongly preferred to avoid that need. It's worth noting that it gets worse as you get older. Every year, your knowledge base and that of most interviewers will diverge. Sooner or later some poorly-trained interviewer will judge you because you don't know a two-year-old algorithm that they still remember from school, which neither of you ever has used or will use in your day-to-day work, but nobody will ever ask about the ten things that you do know ... even when the lack of that knowledge locally is your value-add and the very reason why the company should hire you. They're the "unknown unknowns" and even if you bring them up yourself their value will be dismissed for lack of experience and context. It's intensely frustrating, but frustration is another thing you don't want to show in an interview. Gotta put on a happy face and stroke the kids' egos. It's no wonder senior people are leaving the industry even faster than natural "aging out" would suggest. I put up with a lot of crap in my last year just because the alternative seemed even worse.