It’s not about age, it’s about experience. Once you get to 15-20 years nobody will want to hire you anymore.
Look into it, it’s real. The people saying otherwise are either lifers at their company or lying.
Look into it, it’s real. The people saying otherwise are either lifers at their company or lying.
There is also the old cliché that there is a difference between 10 years of experience and one year of experience repeated 10 times. If you are a coder who has repeated the same couple years of experience 10-15 times, then you might be over-estimating your own value.
So as you get older, it takes some humility to truly look at yourself and determine your own value. This is why I moved away from coding and towards product management - I'm a decent coder and people appreciate having me on the team, but my value lies in the lessons learned over the years outside of coding. So I seek roles where I can use that experience, and not the decades of coding experience on mostly dead tech stacks.
Same company will fire someone after 3/4 years because they haven't moved up.
But in many areas your statement is true.