Re: Silicon Valley's Submersible rules: 30 years old is too old
if you search the online recruitment advertisement, you will find that everyone knows the dirty secret. "A lot of science and technology companies in the release of new positions will emphasize only the recruitment of students, through this condition screening, to enter the list of most of the 20 young people."
"there is no shortage of age discrimination in any era." Norm Matloff, Professor of computer science at California University, expressed frustration over discrimination against older programmers in the software development industry. It's even more ironic about the group of people born in the 60-70 years: they suffered discrimination from young people today because of their age, and they were discriminated against by the older generation of the baby boomers at the beginning of their career. Once young, it means that there is no hair in the mouth, but now it is worth getting fired.
the job market should have regulated the inefficiencies of this person, the tech news website needs the effectiveness of the experienced journalists, and the new rookie. But age discrimination is so ingrained in the culture of the technology industry that it has become a unique landscape in the industry. The inherent cultural symbol is just as if you think of a cell phone as iPhone or Android, and everyone thinks it's right.
Scheiber described to me a hacker, Zhou Shikuang, a file storage company that looked like it was designed to let the adults and the adults who had to return the mortgage. "Dropbox headquarters has become the world's largest investment game room in which employees can skate or ride scooters. They can also play high building blocks all the time to satisfy your interests, and employees are encouraged to leave their work aside for the time being."
in the face of this situation, if you are a 55 year old middle-aged person, no matter how youthful youthful you feel, you will be powerless. Maybe that's why Silicon Valley technology companies are reluctant to hire older job seekers.
discrimination, from the beginning of recruitment
the seriousness of age discrimination does not need others to add oil to Silicon Valley. Reality is the best demonstration.
the technology companies in Silicon Valley are so deaf to age discrimination laws, you might think, aren't these companies asking for legal advisers?
Apple, Facebook, YAHOO, Dropbox and game company EA have recently released a series of new jobs for "fresh students" only. Some companies say they can consider it for a year or two after graduation, but they will not accept it if they graduate for more than two years.
of course, the federal government will not be able to support these recruitment advertisements.
"it seems to us to be illegal," said Raymond Peeler, a senior legal adviser to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "we think this approach will keep the older job seekers out of the door." Look, what do you think this is from the official statement? It's fair to say, but the Equal Employment Commission has never had trouble finding technology companies. The
EA game company argued that there was no discrimination in the advertisement of "only the limited students", but this kind of justifying just made their prejudices clear. The company is sophistry to argue that its recruitment ads will recruit all age groups to participate in the program, and in order to confirm this, the company says the age range of its applicants is from 21 to 35. But EA soon found out that it was in the mind that it was publishing such information, and that the information just showed that it was impossible for the company to include middle-aged people over the age of 35. It seems that EA's ideal employee age composition does not include any employee over the age of 35.
if the company has a 40 - year - old, 50 - year - old, or even 60 - year-old experienced legal counsel or public relations officer, it may be able to save himself from this embarrassing and illegal situation.
in general, Silicon Valley is not the engine of the growth of employment at all. Since the Internet bubble in 1998, no employment growth has been achieved in the Silicon Valley. Large technology companies like Facebook and Twitter employ only a few thousand employees. The famous Instagram had only 13 members when it was bought by Facebook. They do not want to contribute to stimulating employment in the United States. In any case, such obvious age discrimination in the technology industry will have an inestimable impact on other industries, and if it is allowed to develop, this kind of discrimination will spread to other industries.
it's hard to see a massive collective action against age discrimination against technology companies that will cost the tech giants billions of dollars, and of course, the consequence is to make these big companies more willing to hire cheap young people rather than the older generation.