Job hunting at 60
If you have a good resume with no gaps in employment - will people still want to hire you from 60-64 in good jobs? #layoff #severance
How do ppl know ur exact age?
Depends on your level. If you aren't in a senior position or consulting then you were a stagnant for your prime and come with all that liability If that's you, teach
I once hired a guy in his sixties. Seemed full of energy and I gave him a chance. It was a non-senior temp role. Unfortunately, there were big culture fit issues and there were some complaints against him from some of the women, apparently he was cracking inappropriate jokes thinking it was fine. When he was young, these were surely fine and he just hasn’t caught up with the times. He also wasn’t very good at what he did. That definitely doesn’t mean every older person is not going to deliver great value. Many will. But from the culture fit standpoint I’m afraid they will have to prove themselves a bit harder than others. All that said, I’d still hire a person in their 60ies again. They can bring a great experience and very useful angle. I’d just watch out a little bit more for a few specific areas during the interviews. Last but not least, the whole tech industry is getting older. It’s becoming more and more normal for teams to be more diverse in age.
Yup, age of a software dev should be going up, so the complaints of age discrimination hopefully go down.
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If 80 is okay to be a president, 64 is okay to write some code
My Dad gets MAG7 roles without interviewing lol, if you have deep expertise I don't think they care
At that age it is only high level management roles, director+. You need to lean on experience or you are screwed
You don’t need to reveal your exact age.
I’m glad to see so many Yes’s in the response. Then there is the reality… hopefully, you’re the outlier.
Why would you work in tech at 64 is the question. I wanna quit at 33.
Inhumane industry
Not all ppl in tech earn enough to retire at 33