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And in techa sector notoriously always looking for the next hot, new thingsome people whose days as fresh-faced coders are long gone say that having decades of experience can feel like a disadvantage...
Industry and government data shows that US tech workers skew younger than the wider US workforce, but definitive data on differences in hiring patterns for older and younger tech workers has been hard to gather..
Thats because so many more senior tech workers get jobs by networking or moving between companies where they know people rather than by cold applying, and thats tricky to study and quantify, says Joanna Lahey, a professor of public policy at Texas A&M University who studies age discrimination...
Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 workers over the past two years, according to Layoffs.fyi, which tracks job cuts in the industry..
The industrys generally consistent growth in recent decades as the economy has become more tech-centric means that many more senior workerswhich in tech can sometimes be considered to mean over 35 but includes people in their late forties, fifties, or sixtiesmay have less experience with job hunting...
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