Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias

Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by hindsightbias on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:15PM (#15462427)

For older applicants, they've probably have only had one or a couple of jobs - they're the last people anyone should worry about chasing changing jobs every 12 months for higher pay.

Most 40- or 50-somethings in tech would be happy just having medical and getting to retirement w/o having to sell their house or raid their 401K.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by ci5er on Thursday October 12, 2017 @11:54PM (#15463158)

Huh?

Might I suggest that you might not know enough 40- to 50-somethings to sling around that word "most"?

Sure, as an old fart, I don't like the new culture of the young snots that change jobs every 18 months before they've started to add value, or even really learned anything, but that's about as much time as you'd get from an overqualified person looking to bide his time before he moved on anyway.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by stuaxo on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:23PM (#15462466)

As someone a year off 40 doing contracting, that sounds incredibly depressing.

It also doesn't fit other software devs I know who are similarly old.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by quickben on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:44PM (#15462551)

Depends on what you are stuck in.

In Toronto, I've worked with 60+ years olds getting paid six figures as 'c++ developer'.

I've also worked with 40 year olds hired as 'frontend engineers' unable to get more than $35k.

So yea, maybe your statement is true if you are only after job, but if you treat this as a career, there are no limit to opportunities.

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