The average age was 37, if you believe the article. https://supchina.com/2019/05/09/oracle-to-lay-off-1600-staff-in-china/
Its not ageism. Its the general unemployability of folks past 40. In general they tend to get comfortable and not invest enough in skillsets to keep up. Again, not everyone but in general.
I didn’t know there are >40 yo devs in China. Most transitioned to management or get kicked out by 30.
But given that it's a pyramid structure, that would mean most people got kicked out after 30. What do you think they did? It's a question of personal interest to me too, though not Chinese myself.
No more technology theft for China... I expect more of this to happen gradually
That's neat...AFTER your CEOs and neoliberal politicians let them become the 2nd largest economy in the world and almost a contemporary in cutting edge fields like AI/ML 😂 assuming you're an American, of course.
Better late than never... big mistakes were obviously made, now they’ll try to fix what’s fixable
Too bad, we got really good work out of CDC, on avg better than US. Reminds me of a few years back where all engineers in France were laid off. It makes for a better story for the affected, though, as nobody was laid off based on their abilities.
But then what's the answer? Ageism, since they were too old and expensive even though they delivered results better than HQ? Politics, just because it's China? Or something else?
I‘m pretty sure that CDC employees have been younger than average ORCL engs. The average age will go up following this layoff.
We're not going to be able to get to the bottom of the truth about something as nebulous as "agism". Identifying trends in data like this is the right approach. But just this one metric says little on its own.
Sorry, but you're ignoring the tons of metrics which came before this. Like the ProPublica expose on IBM? Note that I'm considering this problem as a global phenomenon, not something which is isolated to specific regions.
Who cares? It’s China.
No one asked you. You're Akamai