>> Should I remove experience from my resume to avoid ageism in automated resume filters? I really doubt that any significant number of companies are using age

>> Should I remove experience from my resume to avoid ageism in automated resume filters? I really doubt that any significant number of companies are using age to filter resumes as people over the age of 40 are a protected class in the US. But you still might want to leave off older experience to avoid unintentional ageism. You don't want to avoid intentional ageism, if you are 40 years old and someone really thinks people 40 years old are too old to code, you don't want to work for them. I'm over 50, when my previous job was off-shored, I was advised by the outplacement agency to remove experience older than a certain point and replace it with something like "additional experience available on request", I don't recall the exact wording, and they also told me to remove the date from my CS degree. If people want to discriminate against you, this is isn't going to fool them, it's more about the people who explicitly do not want to discriminate against you, but still have an unavoidable reaction on seeing something like a graduation date that is before they were born. All that said, the reason you are not getting many responses now may simply be that the current market for programmers is the worst since at least the Great Recession, and maybe even worse than that. Hope you find work soon!