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by krapp 4721 days ago
If you write code and you are over 35, you are toast.

In SV, maybe. Hopefully not so much elsewhere or I'm gonna have a hard time paying off my student loans...

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I hate the fact you have to say that...it pisses me off to hear this. I was lucky I had minimal loans, and school was 1/2 the cost. If I can give a word of advice, spend less on car #1 and attack that loan, pay it off. Get to 0 debt.
Yeah, what can I say? Times are strange, and fatalism leads one to take risks.
I hear ya...more and more, I think our industry needs to unionize.
It's not even true in SV.
This job aside, ageism is 100% prevalent in our industry.

Visa program has been hijacked and have subverted the career engineer.

D.C. area as well.