Re: Silicon Valley's Submersible rules: 30 years old is too old
in the tech world's annual event SXSW (South by Southwest Interactive), when you walk in the streets of Austen, you look all over the young people, baby boomers and the lost generation are like a black hole that has been sucked away. Among the open office photos that are most likely to be displayed in the company's promotional materials, employees over 35 are as few as the women in the streets of Kandaha. In the entire Silicon Valley, the more than 40 - year - old people in formal dress have the danger of being swallowed up - you need to dress younger, lower your head, don't make eye contact with others, and hope you don't get noticed. This is the most fashionable young man in Silicon Valley.
"Silicon Valley has become the most serious area of age discrimination in the United States." Noam Scheiber said in a report that industry practitioners began to seek cosmetic surgery from age 26 in order to eliminate the early signs of male hair loss and baldness caused by age, and to cover spots on the skin for years.
anyway, no matter how you dress yourself, do not let others see your real age unless you are 22 years old.
Scheiber continued: "Robert Withers is an inaugural adviser to help those 40 year old people seek jobs in Silicon Valley. His proposal is to let older job seekers use professional photographs in the LinkedIn page to ensure that they look energetic and energetic in the photos. No weary. He also suggested that older job seekers should go to the company's parking lot before the interview to learn about the dressing styles of their employees.
Silicon Valley's most famous investor, Paul Graham (Paul Graham), said in an interview with the New York Times that most venture investors in Silicon Valley will not invest money in entrepreneurs over 32 years old. In early November 2014, Silicon Valley's venture capitalists invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to a 13 year old entrepreneur.
besides legal and moral considerations, I want to ask, are those technology giants not using young people? Scheiber says it sounds heartless, but that's the reality. "The growth of the American economy is due to the desperate optimism of its bones. In this optimism, inventions have been placed in the highest position. We now have a large number of trained, talented and ambitious young people, and their numbers are growing. These young people push the old employees to the edge of the edge, for reasons no one can give a reasonable explanation, but the result is very frustrating. "
in my opinion, one of the consequences of age discrimination is brain drain. The vitality of young people is of great importance to the success of a company, but the rich experience accumulated over time can not be underestimated. The more a business organization can reflect to the greatest extent the composition and structure of a real society, the more intelligent it is.
a recent woman friend called me to tell me she was fired by the company. She had been an editor and a journalist at a big tech news website (of course, she was the oldest employee in the company). In such a position, she is very obsessed with Internet and pop culture, and she is also the smartest in the company. I saw many scientific and technological journalists' positions being recruiting, and they were all suitable for her. However, she was worried and overwhelmed. "I plan to jump off Golden Gate Bridge," she panicked. "What else can I do without this job?" I am 45 years old, and no one will hire me anymore. Though I kept encouraging her not to think things too badly, I could not disprove her pessimism. Objectively speaking, I think those employers who shut their doors out because of her age are all idiots. This is their loss.
a month ago, I met an executive of a big tech news website who told me that it was not realistic to find a job at my age to go to the science and technology news website. "Your idea sounds silly, and you should also know that age discrimination in the workplace is illegal, right?" This is the answer that I gave him.
"no one will really abide by this law." He shrugged his shoulders and said nothing. In fact, he is right. The federal government does not even allow the National Bureau of statistics to count the number of people based on their age.
young = low salary, working overtime
the median age of American workers is 42, while the median age of employees in Facebook, Google, AOL and Zynga is 30, or even lower. The age of Twitter, who had been lawsuits because of age discrimination, was only 28 years old.
large technology companies do not want everyone to know that they do not employ middle-aged people. The data on the age of the company's employees are unintentionally ignored, and these companies have repeatedly stressed that they have made unremitting efforts to improve the diversity of their employees.