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Re:Corporate culture used to be far weirder: IBM Songbooks by ggm on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:52PM (#32572631)
IBM banned beards and shorts.

Then permitted Bermuda shorts, briefly.

Beards came later.

Now, IBM sacks anyone over the age of 55 (only half joking)

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Re:Corporate culture used to be far weirder: IBM Songbooks by hindsightbias on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:58PM (#32572705)
How many 55 year olds work at FAANGs?
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Re:Corporate culture used to be far weirder: IBM Songbooks by ggm on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:04PM (#32573772)
Brian Reid isn't one of them, we know that from a lawsuit with Google (he was 52 at the time)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...

OTOH Vint Cerf, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson are all doing fine there. So, YMMV

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