<story><title>64 and unemployed: One man&apos;s struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-january-27-2019-1.4989313/64-and-unemployed-one-man-s-struggle-to-be-taken-seriously-as-a-job-applicant-1.4991626</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>towaway1138</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m only in my 50s, but this is very relateable.  Did a couple dozen interviews a year or two ago before finally getting a bite.  Somewhat amazingly, even passed the hiring committee at a FANG, only to get swatted down by a rare strike from the executive level.&lt;p&gt;In one interview, was asked to produce a class that could serialize and deserialize a list of numbers, to&amp;#x2F;from a string of chars.  Sure, it&amp;#x27;s not that hard.  Took maybe ten minutes?  A few tests, it worked fine.  They declined--&amp;quot;your skills seem rusty&amp;quot;.  Huh?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in good health and much better financial situation than the guy in the story.  But without being too grim, I&amp;#x27;ve accepted that someday I might run completely out of money.  If I can&amp;#x27;t get hired in tech, I&amp;#x27;ll give McDonald&amp;#x27;s a shot--it&amp;#x27;s honest work.  Failing that, I&amp;#x27;ll make my graceful exit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>I find it disturbing he can&amp;#x27;t find work as a project manager. If anything, that&amp;#x27;s one role where the practitioners typically know fuck-all about nothing and where good ones are worth their weight in gold.&lt;p&gt;I LOVE to work with ADULT project managers who have a clue about how projects actually unfold and how things actually get done with a wide variety of personalities in the mix. Instead, more often than not, you get 20-30-something &amp;quot;management fast-track&amp;quot; wannabe&amp;#x27;s who could not solve a problem to save their lives.</text></comment>
<story><title>64 and unemployed: One man&apos;s struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-january-27-2019-1.4989313/64-and-unemployed-one-man-s-struggle-to-be-taken-seriously-as-a-job-applicant-1.4991626</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>towaway1138</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m only in my 50s, but this is very relateable.  Did a couple dozen interviews a year or two ago before finally getting a bite.  Somewhat amazingly, even passed the hiring committee at a FANG, only to get swatted down by a rare strike from the executive level.&lt;p&gt;In one interview, was asked to produce a class that could serialize and deserialize a list of numbers, to&amp;#x2F;from a string of chars.  Sure, it&amp;#x27;s not that hard.  Took maybe ten minutes?  A few tests, it worked fine.  They declined--&amp;quot;your skills seem rusty&amp;quot;.  Huh?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in good health and much better financial situation than the guy in the story.  But without being too grim, I&amp;#x27;ve accepted that someday I might run completely out of money.  If I can&amp;#x27;t get hired in tech, I&amp;#x27;ll give McDonald&amp;#x27;s a shot--it&amp;#x27;s honest work.  Failing that, I&amp;#x27;ll make my graceful exit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burtonator</author><text>Link to your resume and I&amp;#x27;ll take a look.&lt;p&gt;All this bullshit about inclusivity.&lt;p&gt;What we SHOULD be doing is blinding the candidate and interviewer.&lt;p&gt;No name. Just the last 2 years of job history.  That&amp;#x27;s it.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t know their gender.  Don&amp;#x27;t know their age.  Don&amp;#x27;t know their race.&lt;p&gt;Just complete meritocracy.</text></comment>