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Age discrimination is real, of course, just about everywhere. My experience though is different to yours. I joined a bootstraped company in 1992 as emp number
by bruce511 2y ago
Age discrimination is real, of course, just about everywhere.
My experience though is different to yours. I joined a bootstraped company in 1992 as emp number 1. Basically me and the founder. We were both in our 20s.
In those years everyone in computers was young. We had no "adults in the room". We did a lot right, and a bunch wrong. I grew a beard to look older. When we had programmer user-group meetups everyone was our age.
That hasn't really changed, except now we are the grey beards :)
- yubblegum 2y agoOf course we had young workers, I was one of them. Except we also had actual grey beards and -no one- ever said silly things such as "anyone over 30 is over the hills" as was the norm (here on HN) in the 21st post "internet". It was very much a different field, and yes, my first two jobs were with startups, as a matter of fact.