[godzillabrennus]

Careful about aging out. At your age you have about 10 years before age discrimination will hit you hard at the individual contributor level if you haven’t moved into management. Maybe a dual master program to obtain the MS in computer science and an MBA simultaneously? That way you show deep knowledge of business and the technology.

[jsqu99]

Serious question...where is this happening? I've been a job-hopper all my life. I'm 54, and i've never felt i was being discriminated against. I keep hearing about agism...is it more in SV? I'm in south carolina

[sumtechguy]

They just dont call back. Two spaces in your sentences? Your first job in the 90s? etc etc. Easy to filter you and you would never know it.

[anon7725]

There are plenty of us in our late 40’s and above who work as IC engineers.

[bfung]

There's an extra qualifier here, where are there Software Engineers past 40s that started in their 30s. I'd don't see many, if at all, that are basically at entry level and end up doing PM/TPM work (not that it's not important, but not worth degree for!)

[el_benhameen]

I worry about this a fair amount and I appreciate hearing the success stories

[vitaflo]

IMO aging out only really happens when you rest on your laurels and let your skill set lapse. Also happens at younger ages but we just call that being PIP’d. All my dev friends and I are mid 50s and doing fine not being in management.

[mewpmewp2]

I guess one of the points is - when did they start?