We Hire Old People
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We Hire Old People
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#2I bet they don't actually hire old people, but are publishing this for the publicity it might generate.
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#3How many Postgres core committers are there under 60? Except for the handful of people who do a Ph.D. under Michael Stonebraker or whatever, that seems like a hobby that most people don't even get into until they're retired.
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#4> The hiring process is in the form of a paid, short-term consulting gig that will lead to a full-time offer if we like you and you like us. We'll give you some tasks, you'll get them done, and then we'll talk. No need to quit your day job to do this gig; we'll work around your schedule.
Interesting. I look forward to hearing if this works out long term. I'd be worried about legal implications of something like this but IANAL.
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#5Define ‘old’.
How young counts as old in tech these days?
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#6To be clear, age discrimination happens far more broadly than just Silicon Valley. You just hear about it more because there are far more software engineers in Silicon Valley than anywhere else, but it is not a Silicon Valley only problem - it is a global problem.
To finish on a positive note: love the contract to hire approach. :)
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#7Damn, it's only one job. I was hoping it was a job board.
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#8Given the Principals only ask, this is interesting. There is something humble about asking for mentor, and this is something that I wish I had when I was younger.
I wonder how far I could have gotten if I embraced asking for help sooner instead of just tinkering away and relearning old lessons.
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#9> The hiring process is in the form of a paid, short-term consulting gig that will lead to a full-time offer if we like you and you like us. We'll give you some tasks, you'll get them done, and then we'll talk. No need to quit your day job to do this gig; we'll work around your schedule. Interesting. I look forward to hearing if this works out long term. I'd be worried about legal implications of something like this…
I mean, they say outright they hire old people and they hire young people. So I think you can make the argument fairly easily that that group includes everyone and that they are not discriminating.
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#10Clickbait basically.
I feel they would be better off going to GitHub and messaging people working on the type of projects they are looking for.
I like the consulting part. Maybe they don't absolutely need an FTE and are keeping the option of having a part time consultant on the table.