Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Post by user5994461 » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 5:13 PM UTC

daemin wrote: post #499

adrianN wrote: post #392

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> If you want to pretend that quality matters, move to aerospace, finance, or any critical systems. The important word here is pretend . If the system is safety critical you'd think that quality matters. It doesn't. What matters is following the process laid out in ISO 26262 or whatever standard applies to your field. Whether or not that improves quality is not important (it does, but only a little). The important pa…

Yep, part of the quality standard for medical devices is to have processes, and also processes to improve and change the processes. So theoretically there shouldn't be any doubt as what to do in a given circumstance when something fails, and that standards would rise as development matures. But in reality it's just a bunch of paperwork, and as far as the software is concerned, standard practices of unit and integrati…

Post by user5994461 » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 5:19 PM UTC

coding123 wrote: post #208

user5994461 wrote: post #94

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>>> I'd like to start a business in 3 or 4 years, and I'm seriously considering going out of my way to target people like him. It'll be my competitive advantage. He could be 10 times more expensive than you. Did you consider that?

In my experience that kind of pay differential exists in two places: Pakistan - US or Intern - Not intern. All other roles for different ages I've ever seen has been based on experience and not age, and at the companies I've been that experience is only about 30-50% higher at the worst.

Post by user5994461 » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 5:27 PM UTC

Balgair wrote: post #360

user5994461 wrote: post #308

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I suppose the distribution is extreme on both sides. Either you accumulated assets from early on and you're golden, or you're still struggling with rent and no pension in sight.

Um, what? Like, cashflow at 50 with 3 kids is important. Yeah, you've saved for retirement at ~65ish, but you have 2 kids in college with one on the way up, plus a mortgage, plus just regular life stuff. That's not an unreasonable scenario at all. Like, do you live in a first world nation? Honestly, the paradigm changes a lot in the 3rd world and your confusion would be more appropriate in Chad or something. (In Chad…

Post by pixl97 » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 5:28 PM UTC

le-mark wrote: post #623

tomohawk wrote: post #254

A lot of managers are threatened by experienced people because experienced people are a lot less shy about pointing out bullshit. People with 5 or less years of experience are much less likely to have a backbone. They're still getting over the school conditioning to complete whatever BS assignment needed to get the grade. Many managers would prefer to have an apparently smoothly running operation than have honest fee…

Experienced people don't necessarily point out bullshit though. Often times, we just keep quiet and watch the train wreck :)

Post by watwut » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

combatentropy wrote: post #66

It doesn't make sense to me to discriminate against people with more experience. Can someone explain it to me? I have heard that companies like recent grads because they are (1) more malleable and (2) can be paid less. But neither of those reasons seem to me strong enough. I'm talking completely about the company's own interests. Let's address the first reason: malleability. A recent grad presumably will adopt the co…