Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech workforce?

Re:Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech ... by albumdropped on Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:49PM (#16934477)

Recently laid off at age 48. Less than a month later, had multiple offers with better compensation. Still in tech sector. Two years ago we switched from PHP to Go, which definitely helped.

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Re:Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech ... by klint on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:12PM (#16934669)

Is your new job writing Go, or do you just think learning it just make you a more attractive candidate?

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Re:Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech ... by albumdropped on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:18PM (#16934718)

New role is almost entirely Go. Some legacy Python.

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Re:Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech ... by UnpossibleJim on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:23PM (#16934778)

If you can, what type of code are you writing in Go commercially? Don't worry, you don't have to be specific, I'm just curious =) The libraries have really started to take off for it, and I'm curious if companies are catching up to that, yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech ... by albumdropped on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:35PM (#16934894)

There are several projects, but the largest is basically a very large specialized content platform. Many sites that have to be fast with no downtime - so Go, K8s, CockroachDB. We also have some machine learning (that's why we kept the Python). Also a few fun, small Raspberry Pi / GoBot things around the office.

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Re:Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech ... by amorphid on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:53PM (#16935062)

Fellow 40-something software dev here. I'd love to ask you some questions about your background & experience. If you'd be inclined, can we chat? My email is in my profile.

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