Links to articles and papers I mention in my PyTennessee talk about the career path for older coders.

Video and transcript of my PyTennessee talk.

An article I wrote on this subject, aimed at a more general audience.

Old modem sounds and an explanation thereof.

Median age at Google and Amazon is 30.

Median age of American worker is 42.

Stack Overflow developer survey: three quarters of respondents were under 35.

Python developer survey: half of respondents are under 30.

A typical Hacker News discussion, “What happens to older developers?".

Quora: What happens to older (over 30) programmers?.

Mark Zuckerberg: “Young people are just smarter”.

ProPublica investigation: “Cutting Old Heads at IBM”.

Intel EEOC age discrimination investigation.

“STEM Careers and Technological Change,” David Deming and Kadeem Noray.

Hired.com: Tech salaries peak in our early 40s.

Women leave tech due to lack of mentorship: Anita Borg Institute, National Center for Women in Technology.

Men are afraid to mentor women: LeanIn.org, New York Times.

Individual efforts for diversity and inclusion in tech fell 50% in 2018.