I'm working in an outsourcing company on a project which makes use of all kinds of engineers, not the homogeneous programmers working on the same stack in the same language, but actually a lot of diverse tasks - some work on analog hardware, some on digital hardware, some people specialize in controllers A, others in B, some specialists in video, some "regular" application programmers, and the list goes on. And most of engineers are in two offices - one Ukraine, another in Israel.
So this very long preface was about age of our employees - despite working on the exact same problems office in Ukraine almost never hires "older" engineers of any specialization. By "older" I mean probably 50+, maybe even 45+. From the same general space where I'm sitting the oldest I know for sure is 40 years old and he is not a recent hire, so he was hired when he just passed 30 years.
In the Israel on the other hand there are a lot of "older" engineers by share, and they are getting hired being "older", hired because of their experience in all kinds of domains we are working on.
Just wanted to share how this problem looks like in two different countries.
So this very long preface was about age of our employees - despite working on the exact same problems office in Ukraine almost never hires "older" engineers of any specialization. By "older" I mean probably 50+, maybe even 45+. From the same general space where I'm sitting the oldest I know for sure is 40 years old and he is not a recent hire, so he was hired when he just passed 30 years.
In the Israel on the other hand there are a lot of "older" engineers by share, and they are getting hired being "older", hired because of their experience in all kinds of domains we are working on.
Just wanted to share how this problem looks like in two different countries.