Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech workforce?

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Post by mud_dauber » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:13 PM UTC

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Post by duck » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

This needs an "Ask HN:"

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Post by tosser00005 » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

I was let go at age 53 about 9 months ago as a software engineer in the Boston area. I enjoy my job and had not thought of changing fields. I'm not in a position to retire either. I got 3 months severance and had a new job at comparable pay by the end of that time period.

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Post by sctb » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

duck wrote: post #2

This needs an "Ask HN:"

We've updated the headline. Thanks!

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Post by ttronicm » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

I'm 47 and might have to. No one seems interested in hiring me.

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Post by no_wizard » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

ttronicm wrote: post #5

I'm 47 and might have to. No one seems interested in hiring me.

It might be useful for those reading this thread to include location perhaps? In as so much you might be comfortable.

Might also be useful to give some idea of skill set previous job too so people can average themselves appropriately as I think that’s the intent here is to gauge where it hurts the most for this to happen and perhaps what skill sets might be seeing it more?

Maybe I’m wrong so I’m open to suggestions on improving this discourse

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

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Post by albumdropped » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

Recently laid off at age 48. Less than a month later, had multiple offers with better compensation. Still in tech sector. Two years ago we switched from PHP to Go, which definitely helped.

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Post by stagger87 » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:50 PM UTC

We just interviewed a series of laid off 50+ principle software engineers (all from the same company). After the interview, all reported back they had multiple offers and chose to work elsewhere. Keep in mind these were engineers with very specific domain knowledge (which we were after).

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Post by Viker » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

ttronicm wrote: post #5

I'm 47 and might have to. No one seems interested in hiring me.

Are you on engineering or sales/manegement?