Currently an IC at 53. I was same-day terminated at the end of 2020, found a new remote position within a month, left that position for a 25% raise 10 months later. Both were small companies. Haven't seen a job market like this since the dot.com era. Most places I talked to seem more concerned about skills rather than age although I am sure there is a lot of ageism in tech.
bradknowles|3 years ago
What I have found is that you need to have good relationships with other people in the business, and you need to talk to the right people inside the hiring organizations. It is entirely possible to still fail to get hired by them, but the hiring process remains one that is still mostly driven by personal contacts.
I've been a sysadmin and DevOps guy my entire career, and now I'm moving into Support Engineering. In a way, I've been L3 tech support most of my career, because whenever the help desk has been unable to resolve problems, they would come to us on the operations side to try to help them figure out what went wrong and how it needs to be fixed for this customer.
So, now that I'm a Support Engineer at AWS, Customer Obsession is my top leadership principle that I'm paying attention to.
And yes, our team is hiring.