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Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by honkycat on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:27PM (#18240668)
I feel like Google / Amazon / IBM / any of the larger companies would love to have you on board. Maybe look bigger instead of going for start-ups which are often run by children.

Anymore people like hiring young inexperienced devs they can abuse and pay poorly. And then they wonder why we have to take months and months to pay off technical debt...

Hiring managers and inexperienced management think anybody can learn to code so they just hire who they think is cool. It's a bad trend. So tired of working with people who are fresh out of code bootcamp and are basically useless.

I've posted about this before so I'll repeat myself:

> More than anything have learned that education and training are hugely important and hiring to train leads to mediocre staff who think their two years of development work stack up to your 4 years of college and 6 years of professional experience.

> They take forever to start writing productive code, if they ever bother leaning at all.

> I will never hire someone without a degree or equivalent experience again. Even for Jr. roles

Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by TheAdamist on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:23PM (#18244359)
IBM has been sued for mass lay offs of workers over 40 in pursuit of making their workforce younger, i wouldn't put to much faith in them hiring anyone older.

https://www.reuters.com/article/employment-ibm/ibm-laid-off-...

Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by anonOver60 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:10PM (#18243839)
I've applied to Apple several times over the last 10 years for jobs requiring some very specific and rare skills that I have. They have never responded.

I've gone through the interview process at Google twice and was "close but rejected".

Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by solipsism on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:42AM (#18245976)
Twice is nothing. Seriously.
Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by honkycat on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:24PM (#18251345)
This was my understanding as well
Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by Permit on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:24PM (#18243950)
>Maybe look bigger instead of going for start-ups which are often run by children.

If you are personally having difficulties interacting with people <30 years old a good first step would be not to patronize them.

Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by raarts on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:52PM (#18244172)
I know what you mean but you'd be surprised about how your managers think about you, or how you would think about your younger self when you're 50.