Re:What good cash-strapped hiring looks like
by hguant on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:02AM
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>Brooklyn's agesim is much worse than Silicon Valley
Is that a Brooklyn/hipster thing, or a NYC finance culture thing seeping into the tech world?
Re:What good cash-strapped hiring looks like
by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:29AM
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That’s a good question, and I’m not entirely sure. I have ideas why, but I don’t think it’s helpful to speculate. It’s not like anyone is actually willing to change things.
In my experience, “classic” companies (which now include former “rebels,” like Meta, Google, and Apple) are more likely to be professional and courteous (we won’t talk about IBM, though), when it comes to dealing with older folks.
I’ll bet that my experience as a manager also spikes my chances. I have no interest, whatsoever in being a manager again, but it gave me some great viewpoints and experience with things like strategy and pitching.
I suspect that part of the reason is that the smaller shops I looked at were based in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn's agesim is much worse than Silicon Valley. Also, I was interested in the kinds of startups that are probably dominated by energetic younger folks. I do native Swift (Apple) stuff, and have a lot of experience with things like SDKs, and hardware control/communication.
The bigger shops tended to have a lot less interesting work, but were also a lot more "stolid" in their approach to recruitment.
Like I said, I was looking for work that I found interesting. I'm sure I would have been able to find work that was less motivating.
As it has turned out, what I'm doing now, is highly motivating, and I no longer have a desire to go back to the rat race. In the aggregate, I'm glad things turned out the way they did. A couple of startups missed out, but I'm sure they'll be OK. I'm not God's gift to programming. I know that I am doing great.