I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and Tech Industry

Re:I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, W... by jerf on Saturday April 22, 2017 @07:11PM (#14175413)

You can say this may be survivorship bias. But I at least haven't seen the data that says this is survivorship bias. I haven't seen really solid numbers about how unemployed software engineers are at 50. All I've got are vague and anecdotally-substantiated allegations of age bias in Silicon Valley, which may be localized in the startup arena, and also Silicon Valley is not the entire industry.

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Re:I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, W... by nickpsecurity on Saturday April 22, 2017 @08:30PM (#14175718)

I saw lots of people commenting about it on job sites in many places that arent Silicon Valley. Others had to train their young or H1-B replacements as their last duty. There's definitely more data out there than Silicon Valley complaints.

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Re:I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, W... by ianai on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:30AM (#14176992)

Their voices are also being silenced by conditions imposed for unemployment/etc.

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