Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims

Post by DSingularity » Tue, May 29, 2018, 2:03 PM UTC

seattle_spring wrote: post #14

afpx wrote: post #2

Excellent news! Up until age 39, I was never not given an offer after interviewing. Now after 40, my offer rate has dropped to 1 in 14. So much for the claims that there is a shortage in tech. So crazy.

I'm not saying you're this person, but a lot of people making this claim are also the people that seem argue with literally everything. They always claim they know better. "Oh your team of 8 has spent the last 12 months building this complex webapp with React? Gosh darn millennial hipsters and their FRAMEWORKS. I could have built it with jQuery in a week, and still had a nickel leftover for the trolley!" Yes I've exa…

Post by p0nce » Tue, May 29, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

save_ferris wrote: post #15

p0nce wrote: post #12

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Readers: what's your exit strategy? You probably need one.

What are some common exit strategies in the industry? It seems like early startup options for employees are more of a lottery ticket than retirement plan.

Post by mtkocak » Tue, May 29, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

afpx wrote: post #2

Excellent news! Up until age 39, I was never not given an offer after interviewing. Now after 40, my offer rate has dropped to 1 in 14. So much for the claims that there is a shortage in tech. So crazy.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 29, 2018, 2:09 PM UTC

DSingularity wrote: post #21

seattle_spring wrote: post #14

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I'm not saying you're this person, but a lot of people making this claim are also the people that seem argue with literally everything. They always claim they know better. "Oh your team of 8 has spent the last 12 months building this complex webapp with React? Gosh darn millennial hipsters and their FRAMEWORKS. I could have built it with jQuery in a week, and still had a nickel leftover for the trolley!" Yes I've exa…

Wait what? What did you just do? Did you just claim that most people above 40 are argumentative anti progress coders? Or did you claim that most people who are claiming age based discrimination are such? Either way, how can you back these statements?

Post by rdiddly » Tue, May 29, 2018, 2:10 PM UTC

brainwad wrote: post #24

rdiddly wrote: post #17

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You're declaring voluntary and involuntary segregation to be the same. I can read Black Enterprise or the WSJ. I can't read something deliberately hidden from me.

Facebook doesn't collect explicit race information, it's inferred from user behaviour. You can choose to do the sorts of things on Facebook that black people do, then advertisers will think you are black. Just like you can choose to read Black Enterprise, and advertisers will think you are black.