[kyran_adept]

In a FAANG you need to be competitive. If you are junior and 40+, you probably had different priorities and struggles in life, so you might not be willing to have the dedication required.

It also creates problems for both you and your peers - you will have a very ambitious 28 yo giving guidance, from a management or senior position, to a 40+ yo. You might feel bad in that situation and it's not going to be easy for the younger person having to guide you.

[mondoshawan]

It's amazing the amount of prejudice and wrong data being spewed in this one sentence:

> In a FAANG you need to be competitive.

I've worked at Google since 2006 and have done well over 250+ interviews here, competition is assureadly not a quality we select for. In fact, as an interviewer, I tend to bias against that behavior.

> If you are junior and 40+, you probably had different priorities and struggles in life, so you might not be willing to have the dedication required.

"probably" and "might not" are strong words when talking about assumptions and prejudices. What "dedication" are you talking about? The interviews FAANGs use are amongst the most gruelling in the industry -- if a candidate expresses through them that they have the skills and are interested in the job, and the corp needs it filled, it should be filled regardless of age, sex, gender, background, race, creed, or color. Full stop.

I'll also note, most of Google's upper management is 35-40 years old, if not older, and the younger managers are trending closer to 35 these days, and actually not as prevalent as they used to be.

I've managed older folks underneath me in the past -- I never had a problem with guidance or behavior. In fact, they were often the most hands off because they usually already knew what was needed next.

[dvtrn]

Do either of these two things you’ve outlined come from things you’ve personally experienced or is this theory and speculation? The first seems to preclude the possibility that someone could be pivoting out of one career and into tech, and the other just sounds like that 28 yo needs to jettison their ego.

Actually no wait they BOTH sound like someone needs to jettison their ego.

[hunter2_]

Anyone remotely woke would realize that they are to ignore the unusual age difference of their manager (rather than feel bad, etc) to precisely the same extent that they are to ignore all other differences of protected classes.