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Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job?
Theseuss writes "Given the strong youth culture associated with the modern day Silicon Valley startup scene, many times it falls to the 40-year-old programmer to prove that he can still use the newest up-and-coming technology. Yet the rate at which the tech sector is growing suggests that in 20 years there will be a an order of magnitude more 'old-hat' programmers in the industry. As such, do you think the cultural bias towards young programmers will change in the near future?"
Wrong. You forgot to mention that they're all faggots.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I would say that 1 good programmer is probably worth more than 10 bad programmers. However I have not found that age translates directly to ability. There are plenty of 40 year old programmers who suck. I think this is the real reason it's hard to get a job as an old programmer. At least with a new grad, you expect them to suck, and you can mold them into what you want/need. Old programmers are stubborn, which can be a good thing, if they are also really good, but it's an expensive gamble.