Some companies refuse to let you hire experienced staff
I was running tech interviews for Linux SWE/SRE/SDET candidates - a guy flies through the screen, nuanced answers, so much so I stop wasting his time and invite him to attend in person.
The candidate was middle fifties to early sixties, and as brilliant in person as on the phone, I told my boss "Hire him today, he won't be around for long".
Week or so later, the early forties boss is over his "worries about him fitting in", authorizes the offer to hands down the best interviewee I've ever seen.
Naturally, the gentleman in question was no longer on the market. Doubtlessly snapped up by the next person with an above room temperature IQ to interview him.
The advert was of course perfectly crafted to be free of all markers of prejudice, and the like, for the fat lot of good it did.
I left not long after that, it really soured me on the company, missing out on talent, who is inexplicably prepared to work for the wage on offer, because of rank prejudice, words fail me.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
