As a Gen X dev, I think it's more nuanced than flat out age discrimination. Young devs are naive and optimistic. They'll fall for "we're one big family here".

As a Gen X dev, I think it's more nuanced than flat out age discrimination. Young devs are naive and optimistic. They'll fall for "we're one big family here". They'll come to the "hackathon" that's just an excuse to crank out low quality feature work on the weekend. You can assuage their suspicion that management is floundering with a town hall full of cheery optimism. I'm over all that shit. I know how to do my job and I love making things work, but I have no appetite for bullshit. I'm not putting in more than 40 hours and I'm not accepting less than 6 weeks of vacation. I haven't experienced age discrimination yet, but I have a feeling that if I do, it will be for a job that I shouldn't want.