I'll say that tech in general, and the Silicon Valley startup scene in particular, tend to be ageist. Often in eye-tearingly blatant fashion – look at the language some startups use to recruit new employees. "Culture fit" benders in San Francisco bars and other brogrammer nonsense exclude basically anyone who isn't young and male.
Large companies are aggressive about stamping this sort of behavior out wherever they see it, if nothing else because getting sued when you have deep pockets is a huge waste of resources. I'm sure pockets of it have existed at Google, because any organization of sufficient size contains assholes, and our training specifically calls out joking references to colleagues' ages as Not OK Even At The Offsite Dinner. I'd be much more shocked about seeing it in hiring given the way the hiring process works internally – there's a ton of peer review.
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Date: 2015-05-05 01:19 am (UTC)Large companies are aggressive about stamping this sort of behavior out wherever they see it, if nothing else because getting sued when you have deep pockets is a huge waste of resources. I'm sure pockets of it have existed at Google, because any organization of sufficient size contains assholes, and our training specifically calls out joking references to colleagues' ages as Not OK Even At The Offsite Dinner. I'd be much more shocked about seeing it in hiring given the way the hiring process works internally – there's a ton of peer review.