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Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by roland35 »

mlacks wrote: post #44
scrumper wrote: post #30

I have a couple ideas for you from my own experience. There's about a bajillion C/D+ stage 100-500 person software companies in any B2B vertical you could mention who would fight hard for your type of experience. Not necessarily SaaS click-and-drool tools for corporate drones, but unique and opinionated products that have some significant engineering innovation inside. Those companies have essentially no ability to a…

wasn't going to reply but you called out Accenture. I work at the Government Contracting arm of Accenture called Accenture Federal and it is by far the best place I've ever worked ( I worked in submarines for a decade so probably nowhere to go but up from there). It ranks highly in those marketing pieces "best places to work" if you're into that sort of thing. anyway, I highly recommend Accenture Federal. Great proje…

That's true there is nowhere to go but up if you're in a submarine!

Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by ghaff »

Jgrubb wrote: post #22
cranberryturkey wrote: post #6

I’m 50 and the offers stopped coming in 2022

Agree w the other poster, 22 is when the music stopped for most of the industry.

More optimism may be creeping back in but there's still a lot more hesitancy, caution, and conservatism in my experience than there was for much of the last decade+ (except probably in AI which is pretty hot overall). It's also not clear how hiring is distributed by seniority. On the one hand, I hear that things are tougher for junior people without networks. On the other hand, I hear that filling slots opened up by attrition are tending to go to more junior/cheaper people.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by Clubber »

jvanderbot wrote: post #70
Clubber wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen it a few times. One company replaced the entire QA department with off shore people from India, this didn't go well. Another replaced a bunch of devs with off shore people in Belarus, this did go well. Disney did it back in 2015 or so. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/do-...

This happens, that much is unarguable. But replacing departments does not disproportionately affect workers over 40 unless that dept is disproportionately over 40, which begs the original question: How can one find such a dept!?

Medical.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by billwear »

At 60, I applied to Canonical and got hired. The hiring process is thorough but very fair, all WFH, and they generally don't care about personal attributes. Gave me 20% above my asking price and a higher starting rank than expected.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by cwiz »

Indie gamedev. It will feel like early day startups again. And gamedev is so special that every one in a while you switch to a new project, and that again feels fresh. But gamedev is demanding.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by pelagic_sky »

pjmlp wrote: post #11

For me, reaching 50, it is all about boring enterprise consulting. You still get to jump around technology, althought it might not be as cool, as whatever newer generations are making use of on startups, but on the other hand seniority combined with such stacks is exactly what many companies are looking for. Naturally social skills also play a big role, as they expect people of our age to also contribute to discussio…

Depends on the team you're working with. I'm not going to call out names. But some teams are nightmare 60hr weeks and other teams are 30hr weeks.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by faangthrow51727 »

I am at Google (and have been for quite somewhat over a decade now), and am over 40 too.

Despite a lot of internal criticism about "the old Google" and how things have changed, they are still a very good company to work for in my opinion. Lots of well-known benefits, decent comp, and critically a very good work-life balance (no mandatory work-from-office so far, I probably average about 0.5 to 1 days a week in the office) and laid-back pace. I have been basically doing 8:15am to 3pm for my hours (no discussion with management about it - it's just what I do), essentially logging off at 3pm to go collect my kids and not logging back on after that (although I keep a rough eye on chat and email and jump back on if something urgent/critical comes up) and no one has batted an eye lid at all - so long as the work gets done, people are happy and are not closely monitoring where you are or how you are working. Some of the work is interesting and engaging, other part are more "meh" but I think that is true of many jobs really.

Yes I might be able to get slightly more money elsewhere (especially fintech) and might get to work on more sphincter-clenchingly-exciting work elsewhere (especially startups) but the quality of life from what is quite an easy ride of things is very valuable to me. Google is quite grown up in many ways and the culture is calm and predictable (on the whole - the recent (year or two ago) redundancies were not predicted!)

I'd recommend it.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

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Post by CalRobert »

faangthrow51727 wrote: post #77

I am at Google (and have been for quite somewhat over a decade now), and am over 40 too. Despite a lot of internal criticism about "the old Google" and how things have changed, they are still a very good company to work for in my opinion. Lots of well-known benefits, decent comp, and critically a very good work-life balance (no mandatory work-from-office so far, I probably average about 0.5 to 1 days a week in the of…

To be fair, it seems like getting Google to interview you is a challenge.
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