Ageism in the software industry: is it even rational?

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5 pointsmojuba3 comments

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.

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.

Ageism is just a another way of saying wage suppression.

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