For those who think that there is a skills shortage, let me tell you about my Google job interview

[TahitiNut]

31. There's no doubt in my feeble mind that AGE is the "issue".

The Silicon Valley bias against senior techies is profound. It's another "world" there ... where gender and age discrimination are the top of the "hit parade" but racial/ethnic diversity is wonderful. It's my opinion that people bring their cultures with them. Gender bias is the norm in Asia and Middle East. Age discrimination comes with the territory ... talented youngsters without the sense of personal security that would allow them to work with folks the same age as their parents. I can't even begin to count the number of phone screens and interviews where I was being asked about proprietary products based on the technical fundamentals where I was a participant in the development. I was developing relational database software before SQLPlus et. al. was a gleam n its developers' eyes ... and even before they were a gleam in their parents' eyes. I was a systems programmer before the days of object-code-only, writing and debugging OS software back when the code that still exists in the core of key OS's was being written ... some by me. Nonetheless, I wasn't "qualified" ... or I was (most often) "OVERQUALIFIED." It's a cultural CRIME to refuse to employ an "overqualified" person while importing lower-wage foreign workers, imho.