The thing about ageism in IT is a matter of statistics. If you hire a bad junior you are few thousend in back. If you hire a bad senior you are tens of thouse

The thing about ageism in IT is a matter of statistics. If you hire a bad junior you are few thousend in back. If you hire a bad senior you are tens of thousends in back. Noone wants to make bad decisions, so we use stereotypes we know to prefilter. Its not very pragmatic but lets be honest as engineers we know world is not pragmatic.