It sounds like you had interviews from irritating doofuses that thought they were brilliant. I don't know if it was ageism, but it sounds like could have been t

It sounds like you had interviews from irritating doofuses that thought they were brilliant. I don't know if it was ageism, but it sounds like could have been that you weren't doing things exactly as they were so they were unable to recognize your talent. (And they were to arrogant to look at it from another viewpoint.)