Last year we soft-launched https://noageismintech.com here as a job board website (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252097) and for much of our surprise, we had a huge number of users commenting on the thread and accessing the website in the first week. After a month, the traffic began to fade out and we didn't know what to do.<p>Unsure on how to regain the traffic from early days, the website was taken offline.<p>Takeaway from this soft-launch: we believe ageism is a massive problem in the tech industry.<p>After some months without touching NoAgeismInTech, and listening to some good comments from that soft-launch, we are now back to business going one step back, finding out what sort of problems job hunters face regards age discrimination. With the correct answers and problems identified, we can then build the right solution for the problem.<p>Have you ou someone you know ever faced age discrimination when job hunting?
I am currently on the "recruiter" side and I would love to know more about ageism in tech. Is there a good link that describes what exactly is ageism in tech (e.g., does it start with 30+, 40+, 50+, 60+), what are the consequences (both for recruiters as well as candidates) and why is it bad?<p>From my perspective, I would not call myself ageist, but I do tend to deselect very senior engineers: They tend to be crazy expensive and somewhat ossified (e.g., "Why do we need containers? Debian packages solved all the problems a decade ago.").<p>My 2 cents.