"This comes after three years of full-time work and a summer internship in 2005. Surprisingly (or not, if you know Amazon’s growth), that made me older than something like 80% of all Amazon employees in Seattle, the headquarters (and older than a much higher percentage of ALL Amazon employees)."
The next time that someone tries to tell me that software development isn't a young man's game, I'm going to point to this. Three years out of college, and he's older than eighty percent of the company's employees? Even for the software industry, that's incredibly suspicious.
I worked at Amazon from 2008 to 2009. There were a number of recent college graduates there, but the average age felt a bit older than that. I don't have any data to back this up, but Amazon most certainly does not hire an unusual proportion of "young" people.
The next time that someone tries to tell me that software development isn't a young man's game, I'm going to point to this. Three years out of college, and he's older than eighty percent of the company's employees? Even for the software industry, that's incredibly suspicious.