[marcinzm]

Post COVID there's basically no reason to hire only in the Bay Area unless you work on hardware. Also, in my experience the issue with hiring managers is that they better know what to look out for in terms of bad upper management. The vast majority of startups have bad upper management in terms of actual management and company leadership skills. I've got less than 0 desire to work for a 25 year CEO who thinks they're the next Steve Jobs.

[mixmastamyk]

Can we leave it at poor management? I don’t think the “reverse ageist” jab was constructive.

[marcinzm]

It's not ageism, it's amount of experience. Age simply provides a cap on how much experience you could possibly have. Or do you believe that managers and leaders gain nothing from practicing their craft longer and in a wider variety of situations?

[klibertp]

> Age simply provides a cap on how much experience you could possibly have.

Not really. It depends on the opportunities and luck to meet the right people at the right time. Plus, people internalize experiences with different speeds. So, while in general you're right, you need to account for outliers that lived a particularly lucky life.

Though to be fair, people who got mountains of experience that way despite being young do not, in general, see themselves as next Jobs.

[mixmastamyk]

Ya sound bitter.

[marcinzm]

Are you sure you’re not just projecting your own feelings onto me?

[mixmastamyk]

Nope.