Could be just me but it seems to me that for some jobs (Architects, tech leads) in enterprise-ish industries (Big data / Java / Spring / Cloud) they look (at least from job posting) for ridiculous years of experience. I for one (nearing my 40's) didn't see any problem landing any job (non SF area, mostly Java/Scala/Spring and Spark/Hadoop on AWS). I get tons of LinkedIn recruiter spam, and it's easy to tell my age from my work/education history.
I did feel really a bad vibe interviewing for a couple of SF based startups, got rejected once for being "to enterprisy, won't fit our startup culture". I think it was because I mentioned using an IDE, God forbid.
So it might be a big issue in some cultures / areas. I don't see it in the Enterprise world at least.
Unfortunately, many of those places want someone who grew up in their ecosystem. They replace "too enterprisey" bias with highly-specific laundry lists of skills they are actually serious about adhering to.
I did feel really a bad vibe interviewing for a couple of SF based startups, got rejected once for being "to enterprisy, won't fit our startup culture". I think it was because I mentioned using an IDE, God forbid.
So it might be a big issue in some cultures / areas. I don't see it in the Enterprise world at least.