On: Companies need junior devs

[dragonwriter]

Every decision process is discriminatory, by definition.

But it doesn't discriminate on a prohibited basis (the decision to only bring in developers as novice interns itself; if the way you are choosing interns does, sure, that's a problem, but its orthogonal to the issue), so that's not a problem.

[Arainach → dragonwriter]

Age is in fact a protected class, and if their intent is to only hire high schoolers that would run afoul of the rules.

[gamblor956 → Arainach]

That is not in fact how age discrimination works and any lawsuit alleging such would be laughed out of court.

[pylua → gamblor956]

Not true. I believe there are on going cases here in the U.S.

[gamblor956 → pylua]

Cite one.

Age discrimination is allowed within limits. It's even in the Constitution.

[Arainach → gamblor956]

Things in the Constitution are not necessarily constitutional.

It is unconstitutional to have representation determined by land, not population. The structure of the US Senate would be unconstitutional were it not written into the Constitution as an exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims

[pylua → gamblor956]

Exact sciences lawsuit.

[gamblor956 → pylua]

That lawsuit was settled for chump change (less than the salary the person suing would have made).

This indicates that the settlement was based on legal costs associated with a fight the company would otherwise have won.

Notably they did not change their hiring practices after the lawsuit....

[pylua → dragonwriter]

There are some cases working their way through the system now. Can you prevent someone who is senior from taking a junior position? Have to see what the courts say.