I've soured on work-sample tests. I noticed that I don't get an interview, even after I do them (and I used to take them seriously). Not everyone can get an R

I've soured on work-sample tests. I noticed that I don't get an interview, even after I do them (and I used to take them seriously). Not everyone can get an R&D job. Sometimes you have to get a job maintaining CRUD software, even when you're ridiculously overqualified. I don't see myself ever getting a job that doesn't suck unless I successfully bootstrap my own business. So if qualified older engineers are undervalued, start a business, hire good people older than 40, and crush your competitors. One reason this does not happen in VC-funded startups is that the goal is to get something mediocre out quickly, hype it a lot, and then cash out.