In my hiring, there is one thing that is paramount over all- attitude. And generally the attitude that gets people filtered out is arrogance. Not confidence,

In my hiring, there is one thing that is paramount over all- attitude. And generally the attitude that gets people filtered out is arrogance. Not confidence, but arrogance. Discriminating on age is silly. As is technological proficiency for non-technical positions (to a point.) I'll take a killer sales guy who's just getting by technologically over one who has accepted patches in the linux kernel but doesn't have the drive. Too many people of one age fail to value people of a different age group... give me two equally proficient engineers, one with 20 years experience and one with 2 years experience, and I'll try to hire them both. But if either of them is arrogant, I'm not interested.