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Startups are looking for people with as much free time and energy as possible. And the older one gets the more probable it is that they have a family, and canno
by deletes 13y ago
Startups are looking for people with as much free time and energy as possible. And the older one gets the more probable it is that they have a family, and cannot sustain a heavy schedule. So younger people are hired on average more often. Individuals that fit the "startup schedule" should not worry about their age.
- rynes 13y agoOf course there are laws against some of those things, with (probably) exemptions if there are fewer than X employees. One place told me "we are not hiring employees now, but we can just give you $yyy/mo."
- dasil003 13y agoI wasn't 35 and I didn't have kids when I joined my current startup, but I am and I do now. I'd have to say a startup that is looking for my skillset would be very foolish to pass on me for a 25-year-old who worked 80 hours at half the price. That sort of focus on cost and hours rather than value delivered and mistakes avoided will drive a startup straight into the ground.
- JPKab 13y agoExactly. That's the problem I've noticed: Do you really want to hire someone who takes 80 hours to accomplish something that takes 8 hours for someone else? I think we've all seen this happening. I was brought in to a parallel team one day because they were about to miss a deadline. Turns out 25 year old guy was trying to build a graph database from scratch. He didn't know that he was building a graph database, and wasn't really aware they existed. He just knew what he needed, and went about building it. He spent a huge amount of time building his own awful, non-performant implementation. I told the team lead to get Bob to help. Bob has kids who are in their mid 30's. Bob sat down, logged into the VM, and a few hours later had an instance of Neo4J running and hooked into the app. But hey, he thinks foosball tables don't belong in offices, so why hire him at a startup?
- z92 13y agoPlease don't down vote him for highlighting the current situation. The question wasn't "should startup hire..." And he answered with what's happening in the field, like it or not.
- gopher1 13y agoHow does one down vote posts here?
- deepak-kumar 13y agoI would straight forward look for skillsets and productivity(productivity includes guys availability i.e. whatever is needed) and attitude rather than age, Period.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoI've worked solely at startups my entire career, from 20 to 50+. Not been an issue anywhere.