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Re:Age Discrimination in Silicon Valley by endergen on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @01:14PM (#8168841)
Im surprised that every comment so far basically leans towards age discrimination not being a wide spread thing. Its definitely a thing, especially in startups, incubators, and definitely companies already mostly staffed with young workers.

Disclosure: I'm 35 and have been CTO at my ladt 3 companies. I've certainly have been biased myself worrying that older candidates I'm interviewing wont have the same hustle, want a higher salary than the value they would contribute, and might be more stubborn and resistant to leadership.

Age should definitely be included in these reports.

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Re:Age Discrimination in Silicon Valley by enraged_camel on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @01:24PM (#8168905)
>> might be more stubborn and resistant to leadership.

If you mean "stubborn and resistant to bullshit" then yes.

Older employees are much less likely to be deceived, because they've seen enough of the working world to notice common patterns and pitfalls.

Tell a 23 year old that you're going to disrupt an industry and need some rockstars to pull it off, and they might jump onboard. Tell the same thing to a 35 year old and they will just laugh at you.

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