You're Too Old for That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech
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#2In practical terms, I've never been asked my age in an interview. At some point I'm going to prune my experience if I have to.
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#3In practical terms, I've never been asked my age in an interview. At some point I'm going to prune my experience if I have to.
Age is pretty easily guessable by degree dates and your appearance, they don't need to ask it explicitly.
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#4If this is true, given their birth rate, they will have to change, or run out of people to do things.
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#5In practical terms, I've never been asked my age in an interview. At some point I'm going to prune my experience if I have to.
Age is pretty easily guessable by degree dates and your appearance, they don't need to ask it explicitly.
Is there some reason to add degree dates? I removed them as clutter.
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#6You know what japan always does though? They always respond to applications. Theres no instant automated rejection email. Theres no getting ghosted by 90% of companies.
Pay is bad though.
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#7In practical terms, I've never been asked my age in an interview. At some point I'm going to prune my experience if I have to.
Age is pretty easily guessable by degree dates and your appearance, they don't need to ask it explicitly.
Maybe at some point it’s better to leave off your degree? Your 20 years of experience are a lot more important (and the 10 before those irrelevant).
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#8Hmm, I’ve had fresh people hired into management positions because that was age appropriate, never mind that those people were not interested in managing and had only one or two token reports.
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#9In practical terms, I've never been asked my age in an interview. At some point I'm going to prune my experience if I have to.
Age is pretty easily guessable by degree dates and your appearance, they don't need to ask it explicitly.
More than that, too. I bet you could guess my age within 2 years with solely a list of technology I've used. I don't think it would even have to be sorted by date.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Age is pretty easily guessable by degree dates and your appearance, they don't need to ask it explicitly.
More than that, too. I bet you could guess my age within 2 years with solely a list of technology I've used. I don't think it would even have to be sorted by date.
Yah, when your answer for "most interesting project" involves an MCU with 63 bytes of RAM...