Re:Ask HN: Engineers over 40: What is your career path?
by neilv on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:32PM
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Starting in 30s, for developer roles in dotcoms, you're going to start getting age discrimination, and it ramps up from there.
I'm not sure we can even call it an open secret, because we make no secret about some of it.
It's coming from traditional big-corporate HR reasons (they want cheap and malleable commodities, with the fewest distractions), lottery-winning founders in echo chambers (with their vocal theories that 20yos have all the brains and vision), and low-level 20yo developers (who don't know what they don't yet know, and some of whom assume that anyone who isn't FI by 30 wasn't any good).
I'm not sure we can even call it an open secret, because we make no secret about some of it.
It's coming from traditional big-corporate HR reasons (they want cheap and malleable commodities, with the fewest distractions), lottery-winning founders in echo chambers (with their vocal theories that 20yos have all the brains and vision), and low-level 20yo developers (who don't know what they don't yet know, and some of whom assume that anyone who isn't FI by 30 wasn't any good).