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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by _m96l on Sunday July 29, 2018 @06:01PM (#17640529)
Age discrimination most widely known illegal employment practice in the entire US technology industry.

We have the top executive of a major Valley tech company, on the record, encouraging illegal discrimination against older people.

We have ongoing lawsuits by experienced engineers getting fired after their co-workers and superiors openly mocked their age.

Yet this practice openly continues, with CEOs like Zuckerberg feeling brazen enough to publicly tell their thousands of employees to break this law.

The legal prohibition is thus the most blatantly violated employment law in the book. Anyone who ever worked in the Valley knows that most folks over 40 can't get hired, certainly not by the many companies and startups routinely complaining about "talent shortage".

Incidentally, Mark, you are now 34 years old, which is "old" by Valley standards. Shouldn't you be quitting?

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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by zupzupper on Sunday July 29, 2018 @09:38PM (#17641478)
> Incidentally, Mark, you are now 34 years old, which is "old" by Valley standards. Shouldn't you be quitting?

Oh you know, this only applies to the rank and file. Management positions don't mind if you're a bit older, but if you didn't spend the last decade building out teams and people managing and just wanted to spend your career coding...tough cookies.

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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Sunday July 29, 2018 @11:46PM (#17641899)
Why don't you start a software company that takes advantage of this market inefficiency by hiring people over 40? Why don't these unhirable 40-somethings band together and start a consulting agency?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by mikelevins on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:02AM (#17643821)
You mean, respond to clandestine illegal age discrimination by openly advertising illegal age discrimination?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:06PM (#17647057)
Legal age discrimination, in fact. Or you could not discriminate. You'll have no problem slurping up all these high quality 40-50-somethings on the job market, right?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by mikelevins on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:21PM (#17647180)
Forgive my ignorance; it's legal in the US to discriminate on the basis of age as long as you're preferring candidates older than a given age, rather than younger?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:11PM (#17647575)
As long as you aren't discriminating against people over 40.
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by mikelevins on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:35PM (#17647778)
I'll have to look into it. I'm an old fart myself, mostly self-employed since my mid 40s (because it suddenly got way harder to get hired as an employee), and I know a bunch of other old farts who are smart and have good skills.

Thanks for the idea.

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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by skinnymuch on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:26PM (#17645646)
Because that’s illegal?
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Re:After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valle... by SamReidHughes on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:05PM (#17647048)
Age discrimination is illegal only in one direction in America (federally, at least).
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