[sarchertech]

>Interesting, are these in underserved areas? I just went through interviewing for a new job and despite being in an in-demand subspecialty with desperate employers the most I got was a dinner after the 2nd round interview but no one covered my travel. Do you mind if I ask what kind of physician she is? I clearly picked incorrectly.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine. All in cities large enough to have a children’s hospital, so basically minimum metro populations of 500k or so.

>is there age-ism

I’m sure there is, but not really at the principal engineer level from what I’ve seen. Mostly there’s an assumption that staff plus engineers will skew a good bit older.

I think the issue is that everyone cargo cults FAANG interviews. They get so many applicants that they can afford to treat very senior people like new grads, and that attitude trickles down to most other companies.

From what I observed early in my career, there was definitely a time when higher level engineers escaped the FAANG style hazing process. But slowly more and more companies have started putting everyone through the whole thing.

I’ve been at companies where leadership tried to force very well known engineers with decades of experience, hugely popular open source projects, multiple famous talks/blogs/podcasts etc… to do weed out take home assignments.

[haldujai]

> Pediatric Emergency Medicine. All in cities large enough to have a children’s hospital, so basically minimum metro populations of 500k or so.

Interesting, pediatrics is so underfunded and poorly respected in Canada that I'm genuinely shocked (and pleasantly surprised) to read about a paediatrician not being treated like refuse.

Kudos to your wife though, that's a very challenging field and anecdotally my interactions with peds ER physicians have been overwhelmingly positive. They all seem to have a very well-developed sixth sense about when something is "off" despite many of their patients not being able to talk.

> They get so many applicants that they can afford to treat very senior people like new grads, and that attitude trickles down to most other companies.

Is it just during the interview process or do you find bias against older engineers in hiring decisions and the work environment as well?