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> Places want to hire younger people because they're more apt to work longer hours for less pay. This is the best light you can shine on the discrimination. Mo
by unyttigfjelltol 9mo ago
> Places want to hire younger people because they're more apt to work longer hours for less pay.
This is the best light you can shine on the discrimination. Most often it really is managers taking their “seniority” literally. As in, they don’t want to take the risk their reports are smarter, more experienced or capable of replacing them, so they discriminate on the basis of age. It’s counterintuitive, but this feels truest from my historical observation.
- rtp4me 9mo agoI wonder if this is really true or just an off-the-cuff comment (no disrespect). I have worked for a number of major tech companies and have never seen this in practice. Some managers were older, some were younger, some the same age. In most/all cases, people were hired based on their technical skills not because they fell into some magical age gap.
- unyttigfjelltol 9mo agoIdk, it’s what I observed over many years in many scenarios. It’s the better fit for explaining why some clearly motivated candidates run into headwinds as “overqualified.” Big organizations have done better, and maybe the view is a bit stale and who knows.