Where Age Is No Barrier
Laura Leach, founder and president of Meredith Consulting, is a career coach based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked for much of her career as a technology recruiter and as a coach continues to focus on tech talent. We checked in …
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This week Kieran Snyder, CEO at Textio, posted a cringy-in-a-good-way thread on Twitter about ageism in tech. Over the years she’s heard countless engineers use the phrase, “So easy even your mom can learn it.” At first, she had not thought …
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Let’s get frank. Ageism is real. And nowhere does it start younger than in tech. In First Round Review’s annual survey of 529 startup founders, 89% believed older workers face age discrimination, a number that was even higher than for …
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Lack of diversity in tech is no secret, and while gender and race diversity is starting to come under public scrutiny, ageism has been given less attention. But when you’re an “older” woman of color, you have all three strikes against you. …
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Ageism is bad, on that we can all agree. While laws and hiring processes will help eliminate this practice, the real solution comes when age is irrelevant. An employee’s age is neither good nor bad, it just doesn’t matter. Granted, there …
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