In California, it’s hard for the white men over 50 to get a tech job.
Companies game the system to get H1B workers. My husband still has a job, but he hates it, and he’s seen plenty of friends lose their jobs.
Almost all of my friends and former coworkers over 40 in tech have been replaced over the last year... and these were top notch people. There is a big Gen X pushout underway. Hell, I used to write software for the friggin Space Shuttle and then was a manager for Flight Operations Technology (airline) with loads of performance rewards, and yet I was pushed out. They had to hire 2 h1-bs and a millennial to replace me. and it’s a huge mess over there now according to ex coworkers. Performance doesn’t matter in some places.