The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
I work in enterprises with 50,000+ employees and billions in annual revenue. I work with older programmers all the time!  They&#x27;re better at programming in Angular than I am. And they are wonderful mentors!<p>I think what&#x27;s actually happening is some programmers, who happen to be older, don&#x27;t keep up with their skills. Then when they interview, they bomb it, or talk about how they could do the same thing in an older stack.<p>That&#x27;s great, but  the company is really invested in the current &#x2F; new stack, so it doesn&#x27;t make sense to hire someone who does not have those skills. So they pass them up and find a candidate who knows the software the company is looking for.<p>But the older interview candidate, instead of reflecting on themselves and realizing they need to spend time enhancing their skills, they simply say the company was &quot;ageist&quot; and blame it on age discrimination.<p>Blaming others is generally easier than blaming yourself, I guess.