Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech
At the start of my career in computing, in one two week period I sent some resume copies, went on 7 interviews and got 5 offers.  The reason was the high interest in computing around DC for US national security.<p>I was making in annual salary 6 times what a new, high end Camaro cost.  My 2 BR apartment cost me 8.5% of my gross salary.<p>Then some <i>suits</i> saw the problem, had the NSF have a team of economists estimate computing labor supply and demand curves, and then have the NSF write into research grants that so many students had to be supported and, hint, hint, could get students from Taiwan, South Korea, India, Greece, etc.<p>So, net, the main reason for the nonsense in hiring in computing is that there&#x27;s no real <i>shortage</i>.  When there was a real shortage, organizations would hire based on indications of talent and expect the employees to learn on the job enough to do the job.  Now it appears that the employers have a list of 10 of their most important software tools in their <i>stack</i> and what to hire people with that particular list of 10 tools, with that particular <i>stack</i> -- not promising for either the organization or the employee.<p>For another, managers want their subordinates to be no threat, just secondary, submissive, subordinate, heads down coding, no bright ideas, no risk of the <i>suit</i> being shown to lack technical competence, etc.  And, the more people the manager hires, maybe the more the manager gets paid;  so hire a lot of inexperienced people instead of a few deeply experienced people -- <i>empire building, goal subordination</i>.<p>The non-technical <i>suits</i> need to start to catch on and get the IT departments being more productive and per dollar.