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Why is there ageism in tech? Why don't companies want people that were part of the movement of personal computing? Many of the pioneers of the movement are stil
by elliotec 12y ago
Why is there ageism in tech? Why don't companies want people that were part of the movement of personal computing? Many of the pioneers of the movement are still around, what is it about the industry that looks down upon their wisdom? We could learn a lot from them, why are they treated this way?
- michaelochurch 12y agoWhy is there ageism in tech? We're a colonized culture (see: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/vc-istan-8-the-damaso-effect/ https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/vc-istan-8-t...). There's ageism in the mainstream business culture that is sometimes called "MBA culture". Among them, it's generally assumed that if you're not an executive by age 40, you've failed. True technologists don't think this way, because we know how skill-intensive programming is and how long it takes to get good at it. But as a colonized people, we don't get to call the shots. 40-year-old VCs fund 35-year-old founders (or younger) who hire 30-year-old executives and they bring in 25-year-old engineers.
- greenyoda 12y ago"Why don't companies want people that were part of the movement of personal computing? Many of the pioneers of the movement are still around..." Even the pioneers of web development are getting on in years. If your job was doing web development 20 years ago in 1995, you're probably in your 40s now. (I'm in my 50s, and I got to work with the first IBM PCs and then years later with the first web software.)