Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age
The harsh reality is that in the tech world, companies prefer to hire young, inexperienced, engineers. And engineering is an “up or out” profession: you either move up the ladder or face unemployment. This is not something that tech executives publicly admit, because they fear being sued for age discrimination, but everyone knows that this is the way things are.
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While the data quoted in the article comes from electric engineering, I expect that in programming the reality is even harsher.
