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So your company did a rewrite using platform X? Interesting. I think being in that situation requires a bit of luck. Many companies (understandably) don’t want

So your company did a rewrite using platform X? Interesting. I think being in that situation requires a bit of luck. Many companies (understandably) don’t want to or can’t afford to rewrite their legacy code. I still don’t see how learning a platform on your own got you past HR resume screening. Learning something via a side project over a couple of weeks is hardly the same thing as having multiple years of professional experience already. Are connections always important for getting a new position? I doubt that a doctor needs to already know somebody at a hospital in order to get an interview … but I could be wrong about that, I guess. Age matters because someone just out of college probably at least did their internship in whatever platform is popular right now. They also will probably accept lower pay and worse working conditions. So the older worker has little or even negative advantage if they’ve been using the “wrong” platform in their recent job and don’t have a strong personal network.

JohnFen 3y ago
> So your company did a rewrite using platform X? Not at all. They've been new projects, not rewrites of old ones. > I still don’t see how learning a platform on your own got you past HR resume screening. If I spent 3 years working with a platform on my own, that's still 3 years of experience with the platform. > Age matters because someone just out of college probably at least did their internship in whatever platform is popular right now. I don't understand this point. An older dev can also have spent a few years working with whatever platform is popular right now as well. Age doesn't enter into this at all. I sense, though, that we're not fully understanding each other about something. Are you thinking that "3 years experience" is both a hard and fast rule and that it means 3 years being paid to work with it? Neither of those things are true.

JohnFen 3y ago

> So your company did a rewrite using platform X? Not at all. They've been new projects, not rewrites of old ones. > I still don’t see how learning a platform on your own got you past HR resume screening. If I spent 3 years working with a platform on my own, that's still 3 years of experience with the platform. > Age matters because someone just out of college probably at least did their internship in whatever platform is popular right now. I don't understand this point. An older dev can also have spent a few years working with whatever platform is popular right now as well. Age doesn't enter into this at all. I sense, though, that we're not fully understanding each other about something. Are you thinking that "3 years experience" is both a hard and fast rule and that it means 3 years being paid to work with it? Neither of those things are true.