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> On any of these teams everyone would still be considered "kids" with

Yeah, this is a problem. And theyre all senior engineers because they shipped some k8s integration junk at their previous gig.

Wonder how this started... someone must have identified the talent inefficiency and realized there are young people out there with massive talent doing non senior level work. They optimized for this and just as netflix is running out of subscribers so is true that this talent pool can also be exhausted. A bunch of me-too companies wanted in on the cheap talent gravy train, started age discriminating and it was too late. but worse, didn't know why they were doing it.




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