Our assumption is that you already have 20 years of experience in a language that is only 10 years old. Please submit a resume, retype everything in the resume into our form and then cry in defeat after the form crashes on the employers website.
That's way too old.
Did they perform the rituals?<p>3 days after your birth, you need to Drink water soaked in raspberry pis.<p>By age one, you need to learn how to say mama in binary.
That depends. Can you invert a binary tree, in Brainfuck, while standing on your head, and simultaneously writing a new OS in Rust, all while a traditional big-top circus show goes on around you?<p>If so, you <i>might</i> be suitable for a career in tech, despite your advanced age...
Too seriously answer about ageism to what is probably an unserious question, no. In fact, I've seen plenty of late (30 and 40+) career changers have happy, solid 2nd careers as programmers. I can't say I remember anyone shifting into a career in programming at 50+ (at least not since the very beginning of my career) but I have seen people move over to programming adjacent roles like PM, sales, or people management (typically within a company.)<p>I'll caveat all the with I've never lived in the bay area and that particular mileu seems to be "special".
Yes you definitely are. I m afraid by the time you become of legal age tech will have become completely automated and the few remaining tech workers will be borderline suicidal. Becoming a programmer or a driver in 2022 is no longer an option, sorry. You should look into biotechnology instead, much brighter future there.