[mistrial9]

talk to a twenty year veteran software developer who is systematically passed over due to "bad cultural fit" about your salary survey.

[dghlsakjg]

There are plenty of 50 year old developers I know who are VERY actively pursued by recruiters.

Maybe it’s because he really is a “bad cultural fit”.

Everyone meets an asshole every now and then, if you meet assholes all the time, maybe the problem is that you’re an asshole…

[40yearoldman]

I am over 40, get paid over 700k a year. Just a normal software engineer at a normal company.

Unions would mean I get paid less, and the guy sitting next to me who can’t find his way around a computer would get paid more.

I know you folks like to say it’s a stereotype of unions, but unions really only protect the lazy. If you do your job well companies will fight over you. If you are not so good at your job that union sure does sound like a good idea.

Weren’t police unions why we have bad police?

[bpodgursky]

Like even if this was true in 5% of dysfunctional startups, there's a vast pool of mature tech companies desperate to hire good developers.

And even beyond that, there is an even larger pool of NON-tech companies desperate to hire ANY developer at all.

I don't want to pretend that this doesn't happen, and it sucks, but this does not block any competent developers from software employment.

[ThrowawayR2]

As if twenty years of employment implied any particular level of competence or automatically entitled one to a job. There's plenty of demand out there for anyone halfway decent regardless of age.

[soco]

I make over 140k in Switzerland and I'm definitely no genius yet still in demand at over 50. It can be done.