Why the Tech Industry Needs to Deal With Its Ageism Problem

Re:Why the Tech Industry Needs to Deal With Its Ageism Problem by Retric on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:14AM (#6508728)

I find it odd when start-ups talk about the top recent grad vs the average older worker. The best experienced workers code circles around EVERYBODY else end of story. The only real issue for most startups is convincing them to actually work for you when they have seen enough BS that there harder to convince than most VS's.

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Re:Why the Tech Industry Needs to Deal With Its Ageism Problem by asciimo on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:50AM (#6509009)

If by "code circles around EVERYBODY" you're implying quality rather than quantity, then this is not valuable for most young companies. The quantity of atrocious code produced by some young developers is astounding. Often, that code "works," and the young company is pleased.

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Re:Why the Tech Industry Needs to Deal With Its Ageism Problem by mtrimpe on Monday October 07, 2013 @12:08PM (#6509164)

Experience will also make you much smarter in knowing what you should (not) spend energy on.

Startups don't die from producing too little code; they die from not writing enough code that really matters to the end user.

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