We Hire Old People
I wrote the ad. Holy cow, I didn&#x27;t expect to be #1 on Hacker News. Will answer any questions.<p>Here&#x27;s one you might ask: Why? I&#x27;m pushing 60 and I&#x27;ve attempted to interview for developer jobs over the last year. Got nowhere despite 40 years of experience. Getting really, really tired of this industry&#x27;s attitude toward people like me.<p>Based on questions below, I&#x27;ll give a bit more. Earlier this year I had a personal referral into Facebook for a developer position. They do hiring centrally. A very young person in the HR department spoke to me, put me in the central database, and apparently shopped my experience around to a number of different groups. No takers. No one wanted to interview me, so the application died. Never did a tech assessment.<p>So now I&#x27;ve started a new group, and I expect this thing is going to generate a lot more money than any work at Facebook ever would. So Facebook did me a favor. Still, it rankles.