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by jimmcslim 3553 days ago
> the same persons work in the same IT deps for decades...

Guess I've found my solution to my persistent angst over the repeated 'old geeks are screwed' stories around here!

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Well, of course. Old geeks are screwed on startups and startup-y companies.

The enterprise IT (and the financial sector, major organizations, etc) are the places where old geeks are quite ok -- if not to hire, surely to keep past 40 and 50 when they have already been working for you. The median age in an IT department in a large enterprise is much higher than in any SV startup.