How to best deal with bias against experienced engineers looking for work?
This bias seems to exist in two basic ways in my experience based on the questions I have been able to get answered via online threads asking about this:
- They think you're just going to leave for another company that pays better once you can find something better, and they don't believe in their company or its vision enough to consider themselves good enough to stay at, so they don't want to hire you because they consider it impossible that you will stay. They cant possibly believe that somebody wants to join them and work with them.
- They're worried you're going take somebody's job if they hire you, so they don't want to hire you. They assume you are too good to not end up being the boss, and they wont hire you because trey want to protect their own jobs.
So what's left if your not interested in starting your own company or getting our of tech?
What do you do when you legitimately just want to join a good team and build cool stuff fir the long term?
In short, what do developers over 40 do to stay in tech? Because I know too many who hit that over the pandemic and its like they are being removed from tech or something, and I really want to be able to help them.