Ageism in Tech

ageism in Silicon Valley (day , week)

1. The Brutal Ageism of Tech - Noam Scheiber, New Republic, March 23, 2014 - Silicon Valley has become one of the most ageist places in America. Tech luminaries who otherwise pride themselves on their dedication to meritocracy don’t think twice about deriding the not-actually-old. “Young people are just smarter,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told an audience at Stanford back in 2007.
2. Where Are All The Old People In Silicon Valley? - Ann Brenoff, The Huffington Post, October 23, 2015 - Ageism is the last accepted prejudice in America and it runs rampant, especially in the tech industry.
3. When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don’t Even Bother to Lie - Dan Lyons, Observer, April 4, 2016 - The lesson I learned is that when it comes to race and gender bias, the people running Silicon Valley at least pay lip service to wanting to do better — but with age discrimination they don’t even bother to lie.
4. It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley - Carol Hymowitz and Robert Burnson, Bloomberg Businessweek, September 8, 2016 - The median U.S. worker is 42, which makes sense given the boundaries of typical working age. At Silicon Valley companies, the median employee is more likely to be 31 (Apple), 30 (Google, Tesla), 29 (Facebook, LinkedIn), or younger, according to researcher PayScale.
5. Silicon Valley's not-so-secret bias: Ageism - Jon Swartz , USA TODAY, September 15, 2016 - People over the age of 40 or worse, 50, are often persona non grata in Silicon Valley's youth culture, where executives are upfront about their hiring preference for engineers fresh out of college.

ageism in tech (day , week)

1. Read All About It! NPR Discovers Age Discrimination - Patricia Barnes, March 26, 2016 - I’m an attorney and former judge who wrote a book about age discrimination in 2014 called, Betrayed: The Legalization of Age Discrimination in the Workplace. In it, I analyze, in great detail, the failings of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
2. U.S. Study Reveals Systemic Ageism Exists in Tech Hiring Practices - Visier, September 26, 2017 - Key Finding #1: Systemic Ageism Exists in Tech Hiring Practices, Key finding #2: Older Tech workers do not experience a drop in salary, Key finding #3: Newly hired older Tech workers are on average paid equitably, Key finding #4: Older Tech Workers Resign at Lower Rates
   • Visier InsightsTM Report: Ageism in Tech - Yet in answering the overarching question, does ageism—at a systemic level—exist in the Tech industry, we uncovered that, although there is ageism occurring in hiring practices, older workers are actually more highly valued, in terms of performance, than in Non-Tech, as they enter what we call the Tech Sage Age, from age 40 onwards.
   • Four Common Tech Ageism Myths Debunked With Data - Josie Sutcliffe, Visier, September 26, 2017 - What did we find? In short, the average tech worker is 38 years old, compared to 43 years old for non-tech workers. The average manager in the tech industry is 42 years old, compared to 47 for non-tech industries.
   • Ageism In The Tech Industry: A Septuagenarian Speaks Out - Lexy Martin, Next Avenue, Forbes, September 28, 2017 - However, the study also turned up this disturbing finding: Older workers are less likely to be hired by tech firms than by other companies.
3. Report: Ageism in the Tech Industry - Raj Mukherjee, Indeed, October 19, 2017 - Our survey of tech workers found that close to half of respondents (43%) worry about losing their job because of their age. Even more troubling, nearly one 5th (18%) say they worry about it “all the time.”
4. Tension Between Diversity and Age Discrimination at HP - pgbarnes, Age Discrimination in Employment, June 15, 2018 - Meanwhile, Lucio, who is around age 60 himself, infers that HP is focused on hiring “young talent” and that senior management should be young. In the following “quote of the day” on Friday from Forbes, Lucio states: “If you don’t have senior management that looks like the young talent you bring in, you’re going to lose them.”

worker age in Silicon Valley chart (day , week)

1. Computer Workforce by Age in Silicon Valley, California, and the United States, 2012
2. Ages by Occupations in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and the United States, 2014
3. Silicon Valley age discrimination: If you've experienced it, say something - Greg Baumann, Silicon Valley Business Journal, January 5, 2015 - A sample of median ages at Silicon Valley tech firms: 33 at Adobe Systems Inc. 31 at Apple Inc. 32 at eBay Inc. 28 at Facebook Inc. 30 at Google Inc. 29 at LinkedIn Corp. 32 at Nvidia Corp. 31 at Yahoo Inc.
4. Silicon Valley's obsession with youth, summed up in one chart - Lisa Eadicicco, Business Insider, April 13, 2015 - According to the data, the average developer is 28 years old, as the chart from Stack Overflow shows: ... Only 4.6% of all developers who participated are between the ages of 40 and 50, and only 9.1% are between 35 and 39 years old.

worker age in tech chart (day , week)

1. Some tech workers over 50 are literally working themselves to death — and other things we discovered about their careers - Julie Bort, Business Insider, November 14, 2015 - Facebook, LinkedIn and Salesforce have young work forces. Google's median age based on data from 2014 is the ripe old age of 30. (See chart on median employee age from salary analyst PayScale, below).

Software Developers in Silicon Valley, 2016