Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs?

Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by antisthenes on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:52PM (#18240954)

From everything I've seen, heard, and read on HN, the Bay Area isn't really big on tolerance.

It's big on virtue signaling specific kinds of tolerance towards certain groups, but that's about where it ends. Apparently people past middle age aren't one of those groups.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but those are my observations as a 3rd party - I have no skin in the game.

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Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by gaius on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:27PM (#18243976)

Apparently people past middle age aren't one of those groups.

If Zuck had said whites or Asians or men “are just smarter” he would have been flayed alive, but he was (is?) brazenly ageist and not a murmur. That’s Silly Valley in a nutshell.

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Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by datavirtue on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:48PM (#18245762)

Don't worry...he will be old soon.

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Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by gaius on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:31AM (#18246377)

Laughing into his billions while his age cohort struggles thanks to people like him.

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Re:Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? by city41 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:40PM (#18242954)

I think it depends on the type of company. I've never worked at a startup but it wouldn't surprise me if they tend to avoid older workers. I work for a larger company in the Bay Area and there are plenty of older workers (myself included). Anecdotally I've also known of older workers succeeding at other large Bay Area companies.

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