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I wonder if the heavy ageism was more a one time thing. The entire tech industry blew up in the late 90s early 2000s and all of a sudden 20 year olds were hande
by ericmcer 1y ago
I wonder if the heavy ageism was more a one time thing. The entire tech industry blew up in the late 90s early 2000s and all of a sudden 20 year olds were handed endless VC money, of course they biased towards people their age when hiring. That isn't going to happen again, the huge players are established and founders are generally older. I started in 2012 and the same people who hired me when I was 20 are still around and are going to naturally bias towards people in their own range.
If anything I predict the ageism will be against young people, where anyone who got significant experience from 2000-2020 will be desired because they worked through those foundational years and never leveraged AI. Meanwhile a 22 year old who scraped through a CS degree will be viewed a bit dubiously.