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I remember eating in the Google NYC cafeterias and seeing an older gentleman ALWAYS wearing a KORN t-shirt. Turns out it was...
by kyasui 4y ago
I remember eating in the Google NYC cafeterias and seeing an older gentleman ALWAYS wearing a KORN t-shirt. Turns out it was...
- endtime 4y agoWhen I worked on Fiber wifi and sat on the second floor (after it was renovated with a "movement" theme, but still kind of dungeony), David sat across the aisle from me. I didn't know who he was at first, and just thought of him as "perhaps the only extant person my parents' age who listened to the same music I did in middle school". (And when Fiber's headcount got substantially cut and I needed to find a new team, I ended up working in "Kornistan", so named because the org was run by David's son Jeff.)
- oh_sigh 4y agoIf you see a 68 year old badged employee at Google, almost certainly they are a god
- taylorfinley 4y agoThis is a sad indicator of ageism in tech
- PragmaticPulp 4y ago68 year old engineers have usually retired long ago by choice. Engineering pays well. There aren't many 65-70+ year old engineers who are even still interested in working, let alone keeping up with modern technologies. Anyone sticking around that long at a famous company is almost certainly in it for the love of all things computers, not because they need the money.