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What do you think they do when they get to that age? Where do they go? My observation is that age discrimination isn't a brick wall, so much as an increased di
by michaelochurch 12y ago
What do you think they do when they get to that age? Where do they go?
My observation is that age discrimination isn't a brick wall, so much as an increased difficulty in doing things a person should be able to do. It's not like you can't get a programming job after 40, because obviously people do. It's just that job searches are no longer completed in 2 weeks; it's closer to 4 months.
What no one told us in school was that getting better at our jobs, past a certain point, makes job searches harder and more complex, especially because HR drones don't understand our specialties and tend to use them against us. ("Doesn't have 3 years of Swift experience? No hire.") Structuring a society as a pyramid actually works when it is in transition from poverty to industrial wealth, but it's a disaster in a stable state.
- arethuza 12y agoA lot of organizations, particularly in professional services, are pretty brutal at maintaining a pyramid shaped organization structure - "up or out" as they say.
- vkjv 12y agoIn my experience, I've never seen people over 40 have any more issues than younger folks getting programming jobs. However, the reason you don't see many, is that most don't want that job by the time they are that age. For most programmers, they will hit a glass ceiling on salary somewhere in their 30s. If they want to make more money, and most people do, they transition into management. The answer to the question, "where did they go?" is pretty simple. Management.
- JabavuAdams 12y agoYeah, that's been my experience as well. I'm 38, and I get pinged for a job about 2-3 times a week, but basically I don't want to work at any of them (ask me again in 6 months).