Ageism in Tech: How Age Becomes an Advantage

“Ageism” (discrimination based on a person’s age) is one of the ugliest and most foolish phenomena in the world of work, especially in Israeli tech, and Dutch tech too.

How long will we keep running into development, marketing, finance, HR, and product teams where the average age is 27? What on earth is a tech professional supposed to do after 45, 50, 60? Take up fishing? Get a voucher for a bridge course?

The good news is that something is happening. There is a change in the air.

The arrival of AI in our lives is making employers recalculate the route. The hundred-million-dollar question is: “What do we actually need to take the business to the next level?”

And the realisation is sinking in, slowly but surely: that the hype, the buzz, fluency in the latest front-end stack, how many agents you can wire into n8n, and knowing who Billie Eilish is, none of that is the whole picture.

In fact, in a world where all the information and all the basic skills are accessible to everyone, those things become very cheap.

“Wait, if they are cheap, then what is expensive?”

Good question. What is expensive is professional experience, healthy intuition, a level head, integrity, and excellent people skills. And this is where age stops being an obstacle. In fact, it can become an unfair advantage.

But these things do not happen on their own. You have to get precise about yourself (what do you want? what do you bring to the table?) and target the right employer, the right way.

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