Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
As a 53-year-old Facebook employee, I find the part about Facebook doing this for their own hiring a bit odd. To the extent that anyone has ever reacted to my age with anything other than mild surprise, people generally seem quite glad to see something besides another fresh 20-something face and to hear the voice of long experience.<p>Then again, I didn&#x27;t come in via a Facebook ad. Maybe companies use different methods to search for candidates of different ages or experience levels because <i>our own</i> job-seeking habits are different. I was already a principal before the web even existed, let alone Facebook or LinkedIn. Even then I didn&#x27;t look at generic ads anywhere to find a new job. I used headhunters, and then purely personal contacts. I&#x27;m sure many of my contemporaries are the same. If such broadcast ads are basically a waste of money seeking that kind of employee, and other methods are being tried, is that really &quot;disparate treatment&quot; in any meaningful sense?