At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40

theodp writes "Google faces an imminent California Supreme Court decision on whether an age discrimination suit against it can go forward. But that hasn't kept the company from patting itself on the back for how it supports 'Greyglers' — that's any Googler over 40. At a company of about 20,000 full-time employees, there were at last count fewer than 200 formally enrolled Greyglers working to 'make Google culture ... welcome to people of all ages.'"

Comments

Re:Not just Google

[zepo1a]

I applied to Origin Systems in the late 80's after I got my CS Degree, I was 28. Had a phone interview, at one point the guy (kid?) interviewing me told said "You're kind of old, we don't think you could handle the pressure." Seriously..28...kind of "old"? Lulz.

Re:i've seen plenty of older IT workers

[NoZart]

yeah they LOOKED 40. Probably late 20ies on near-burnout.

Re:I'm 54 and not grey

[HopefulIntern]

...your lawn...I will get off it now.