Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry

Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by Domenic_S on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:44PM (#12507650)

At 34, I interviewed at $BIG_SV_CO with two late 20s engineers. Not a huge age gap. In the discussion portion of the interview I asked if they were on xbox, ps4, battle.net, etc -- because I like to game occasionally in my spare time. They seemed almost offput by the question, as if they thought I was trying to force commonality or making assumptions about them. I dunno, it was weird.

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by Jarwain on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:05PM (#12507833)

I notice sometimes I get a little offput when people start off a videogame conversation by asking me what network I'm on. It just sounds/feels a little weird, depending on how it is phrased.

It feels more natural if it progresses through asking what games I've played

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by bogomipz on Friday September 16, 2016 @02:11AM (#12512185)

I'm not trying to be harsh but isn't that an odd thing to bring up in a job interview?

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by Domenic_S on Friday September 16, 2016 @03:01AM (#12512352)

Nah, it was the "so when you're outside of work, what do you like to do?" part of the interview. Not like I was whiteboarding code one moment and then all "so, GTA 5, huh?" the next.

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by bogomipz on Friday September 16, 2016 @02:21PM (#12516086)

LOL, sure that makes sense. Cheers.

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