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Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age
Tech engineers have become a commodity. Even specialists.
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And engineering is an “up or out” profession: you either move up the ladder or face unemployment. This is not something that tech executives publicly admit, because they fear being sued for age discrimination, but everyone knows that this is the way things are. Why would any company hire a computer programmer with the wrong skills for a salary of $150,000, when it can hire a fresh graduate—with no skills—for around $60,000? Even if it spends a month training the younger worker, the company is still far ahead. The young understand new technologies better than the old do, and are like a clean slate: they will rapidly learn the latest coding methods and techniques, and they don’t carry any “technology baggage”. As well, the older worker likely has a family and needs to leave by 6 pm, whereas the young can pull all-nighters.
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Hootsuite gets approved as government social media dashboard
Smart move, what types of user-groups can you discern for your product/service?
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First the political news. On their blog yesterday HootSuite announced that they “are proud to be the first and only social media dashboard in the Apps.Gov catalog and are pleased to announce that HootSuite is officially approved as a web application for United States government agencies.”
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