[lysergic]

Why do companies more or less openly discriminate against older people?? It's nice to be able to have a more experienced professional give advice and help you out. I've heard multiple times when interviewing for jobs, that their company has a "young" culture and it always made me uneasy.

[citrin_ru]

There are many young people in IT - fast growth of the industry being one of the reasons. People prefer to work with people which are like themselves e. g. young prefer to work with young. When I was young I myself had a bias against older IT precessional which was foolish as I can see now. What puzzles me executives are rarely young but they allow ageism to thrive.