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Remote work has a way of prioritizing professionalism and solid communication over in person social signaling which is likely to help be anti-ageist.
So the list you posted:
https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs
Should be a good place to start
I don't know if this is a startup or valley or techbro thing but in my industry there is no ageism that I can detect. In aerospace they seem to prefer people who know where the bodies are buried, know how to bury bodies, have buried a few bodies themselves, and can instruct others on body burying.
The closest thing I've seen is that people who have X number of years of experience doing the same thing over and over again don't get opportunities that people with the same number of years doing different things do, unless there's a position that needs X exclusively.
You want old finance companies. In fact any company older that 30 probably won't care. I'm not a grey hair yet, but I actively hate startups. We aren't changing the world, we're helping cat photos load 3 milliseconds faster...
No. You don't load cat pictures faster by surrounding it with spyware and choose the cat pic with data from said spyware.
As a proxy for this consider companies that have better benefits in areas that'd favor middle age / older populations. Example: Better maternity / paternity benefits: https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/Maternity-Leave/ Sabbatical programs often kick in after a certain number of years. A more structured program could indicate being more receptive to higher tenure / older populations: https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/Sabba…
But I don't put any stock in (non-professor) sabbatical programs, specifically, anymore, at least not the month-ish kind.
It's easy for a company to advertise sabbaticals, whether they mean it or not (e.g., no cost if you layoff or have a hostile work environment in the first 5 years), and there's also odd incentives, as well as perceptions.
For one example, you can imagine a stereotypical coked-up CEO saying, "If someone is still here in 5 years, they must be complacent, not top players. Sabbatical means they document their duties, and we send them home for 4 weeks, to test whether the docs are enough. It's time to check the freshness date, bro."
And on the employee side, you can imagine people approaching 5-6 years holding out a little longer for that bonus/vacation, but seeing no real refresh of incentive after (unlike RSUs). I've seen industry sabbaticals like this used for job-hunting, and the occasion almost looks like a sign that's time.
(With professors, OTOH, it's different: it might be a year, and a chance to refresh your research, break into a new area, write a book, be a visiting researcher, etc. Which potentially has upside for the university. And the real commitment signal by the employer is tenure.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I actively hate startups Have you asked yourself why you hang out on this website given how you feel about startups? Also, is it really fair to apply such a strong statement to all startups? Look at your screen and the browser you're using, the user interface concepts, the computer itself. Where do you think those came from?
>Have you asked yourself why you hang out on this website given how you feel about startups? Maybe they just like technology.
You want old finance companies. In fact any company older that 30 probably won't care. I'm not a grey hair yet, but I actively hate startups. We aren't changing the world, we're helping cat photos load 3 milliseconds faster...
> we're helping cat photos load 3 milliseconds faster... No. You don't load cat pictures faster by surrounding it with spyware and choose the cat pic with data from said spyware.
As a proxy for this consider companies that have better benefits in areas that'd favor middle age / older populations. Example: Better maternity / paternity benefits: https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/Maternity-Leave/ Sabbatical programs often kick in after a certain number of years. A more structured program could indicate being more receptive to higher tenure / older populations: https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/Sabba…