Re:Ask HN: Does startups hire above 35 years old employees?
by dasil003 on Sunday February 02, 2014 @07:23AM
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I wasn't 35 and I didn't have kids when I joined my current startup, but I am and I do now. I'd have to say a startup that is looking for my skillset would be very foolish to pass on me for a 25-year-old who worked 80 hours at half the price. That sort of focus on cost and hours rather than value delivered and mistakes avoided will drive a startup straight into the ground.
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Re:Ask HN: Does startups hire above 35 years old employees?
by JPKab on Sunday February 02, 2014 @08:54AM
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Exactly. That's the problem I've noticed: Do you really want to hire someone who takes 80 hours to accomplish something that takes 8 hours for someone else? I think we've all seen this happening. I was brought in to a parallel team one day because they were about to miss a deadline. Turns out 25 year old guy was trying to build a graph database from scratch. He didn't know that he was building a graph database, and wasn't really aware they existed. He just knew what he needed, and went about building it. He spent a huge amount of time building his own awful, non-performant implementation. I told the team lead to get Bob to help. Bob has kids who are in their mid 30's. Bob sat down, logged into the VM, and a few hours later had an instance of Neo4J running and hooked into the app.
But hey, he thinks foosball tables don't belong in offices, so why hire him at a startup?