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Ageism in the software industry: is it even rational?

https://medium.com/@hovm/ageism-in-the-software-industry-is-it-even-rational-ee6c10395800

by mojuba • 10 years ago

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DamnYuppie• 10 years ago

Ageism is just a another way of saying wage suppression.

dudul• 10 years ago

It is rational in the head of executives who see developers as code monkeys toying with a keyboard in between 2 games of Magic The Gathering.

Senior people are more expensive, companies see programmers as a utility and don't want to pay 5x for a senior code monkey while they can pay 0.5x for a junior code monkey, period.

mojuba• 10 years ago

But that's the point, the economy behind it is not obvious.

It is more often a cultural thing when 20-somethings working on their startup don't want a daddy to hang around with them. Corporations with strictly formal hiring procedures are usually less ageist.

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