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Re:It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M set... by sneed_chucker on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:43PM (#38045792)
Maybe. Sounds like a pet theory to me though.

I have not found the over 40 engineers I've worked with to be like that.

I've always felt that the ageism in tech has more to do with the fact that older workers generally have families, more savings, and more experience at different jobs so they can't be manipulated into being overworked the same way young and single people can.

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Re:It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M set... by filoleg on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:52PM (#38053742)
> I have not found the over 40 engineers I've worked with to be like that.

Keep the survivorship bias in mind. It would make sense within that per theory that the engineers in their 40s who have both hard skills are soft skills are the ones to be the most likely to stay employed. Which is why those ones you end up meeting would be more like that.

And that would also align with the fact that many former engineers ended up leaving the field (whether voluntary or not) by that time in their life.

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