People are diverse and I feel that tech, in the whole, is coming around to that reality in practice and not only in PR. I work in big tech on “cool projects”. Our particular area values experience and intelligently failing fast, which also takes experience. My early career was in the military and I didn’t start working in engineering until my early 30s. Now I’m pushing mid-40s. In a certain way, I got to skip alot of years as a Junior dev and transition right into architect and design roles.