On: Google Sued by Job Candidate for Age Discriminatio...

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California badly needs to be taken down a notch with all the age discrimination and wage fixing that's been going on there.

NYC shows that it's possible to do vastly better on those. Or at least not to brazenly laugh in the face of those laws.

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I was at Google's NYC offices last week, and I immediately felt like I was on a college campus. The vast majority of people there look very young.

I'm not sure whether the underlying cause is age discrimination, but clearly it's not a NYC/California issue so much as a company or industry issue.

[solve → freyr]

From my experience, I'm absolutely sure that large NYC companies are far more cautious about it. Both cities are full of young people, but CA doesn't even try.

E.g. the YC application always has directly asked for age. Try that in NYC.

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SF is too happy to bend to the demands of the tech lobby because the industry is so dominant there.

In NYC tech is one of many. The importance is recognized, as it has created jobs while other industries are in decline (cough publishing), but there is no sense here that anyone feels the need to kowtow to the industry.

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Looking just now the YC application doesn't explicitly ask for age, but it does ask for > Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founders

It would be pretty easy to discriminate on age/race/sex with that.

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You're looking at the wrong page. They've moved the personal questions to a separate "Founder Profile" form, which each founder gets a special email link to access and fill out.