I'm 35 and I'm not worried AT ALL that I will be discriminated after I am 40.
I think in a way we're the golden tech generation, we screwed our elders by discriminating against them when the industry was in disruption and
now we're screwing the younger generation like in any other mature industry.
I'm saying "we" as in "my generation", I don't feel I personally took a big part in any of it.
That's an interesting angle to look at this from. It may be less about age as a number, and more about how the generations are perceiving each other. I'm 36 and haven't even felt the beginning creep of age discrimination. I'll probably always be perceived as someone who was a teenager teaching himself how to code during the years when software was just beginning to catch fire. Our generation will likely continue to hire each other well into old age.
I'm 'only' 28 and I worry constantly about this as 30 gets closer and closer. When you're the oldest developer you have to work much harder to justify still being employed, but not so hard that they start to worry about you jumping ship for 5-10k more.
The only people around my company that are around your age are the owners and the directors that report to them.
I think in a way we're the golden tech generation, we screwed our elders by discriminating against them when the industry was in disruption and now we're screwing the younger generation like in any other mature industry.
I'm saying "we" as in "my generation", I don't feel I personally took a big part in any of it.