Article below sounds so much like environment at Microsoft today... Interesting how MS is accounting for "how few" real gender discrimination cases they have, while not touching on age discrimination issues at the company... Because HR and leadership is involved in driving that discrimination. https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/
This is my greatest fear that I'll be fired and stuck with old tech that nobody needs anymore
What tech stack
If you work in tech for a decade or two and fear an early retirement, you are doing something very wrong in terms of personal savings management. My 5c.
You probably don't own a house or have kids do you? Every decade in life be it tech non-tech has it's own financial challenges
2 houses 3 kids. Though we are both it tech :-)
White males over 40 are being targeted at Microsoft. Time for class action.
I doubt that this is only age related. As much as I would like to have yet another reason to hate Microsoft, I think its more about the people than about the age. If someone is over 40 and assuming they have over 15 years of experience, they should be in some leadership role at this point in their career. Leadership does not have to be a manager. It can also be a very technical IC who is serving as an architect or as a subject matter expert. If someone at that stage of his/her careers is not there and is not even on the path there, they should ask themselves some tough questions. There is no value in a 40+ year old with 15+ years of experience who is doing thd same type of work as a 20+ years old with 4+ years of experience. I'm assuming that it is those kind of people that Microsoft is targeting. Being at Microsoft for several years I've seen and heard of too many such people.
That's a silly assumption. Most of those people are taken care of much earlier than after 15 years, one way or the other.
On my former team all of the over 40 team members were pushed out and replaced with 20-somethings. They didn’t even bother to be subtle. I left as I was the only over 40 person left and I knew where things were headed. The young new hires were good but not better than those they replaced. I think my manager was just super insecure and preferred more malleable employees who wouldn’t question his poor ideas.
Age discrimination is being applied already at early to late forties in Microsoft, you can see that from age distribution in layoff sheets.
You wont get to 55 there.