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The author is making a false assumption; I work for one of the largest companies in the world and we have quite a number of age 40-50 year old people in individ

• pauljonas 13y ago
  I don't believe it's a false assumption. While I'm approaching 50 and still work as a programmer, I've witnessed, over my career, ageism. I can tally thousands of developer jobs (mostly old school mainframe programmer spots, but still, very lucrative paying positions, within the metro Phoenix bounds, where mostly older programmers were let go in lieu of outsourcing / non-immigrant visa holders. It shows up in hiring, even recruiters inform you to chop off your resume so you won't be thought of as "older". Just look at the camera panning into the crowd at Google Developer talks -- I don't see many people over 40 in the crowd. A few, but the demographics most definitely skew younger than the average worker. Even here, at ycombinator, PG has stated that older folks just don't have the necessary energy level for startup work.
  • ommunist 13y ago
    Elder folks seen that and been there, they usually tend to avoid burnouts and protect themselves from overexploitation consciously. For that they are often discriminated as 'having insufficient energy' by those who are too greedy to pay decently for quality input. But you know, in the long run experience always beats enthusiasm. Think about it if you plan for something longer than 'build now-cash out early'.