Reply #169: I like your attitude. My husband (age 59) is job hunting and

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he also feels that it's important to interview the interviewer. He's a first-rate software/systems architect. Any organization would be lucky to have him, and when he does have the opportunity to speak with a prospective employer (which isn't often because of his age), he asks about their software process and how much attention they pay to quality and getting the job done right the first time. The answers have astounded him. No one seems to give a damn about quality. It's all about "Whatever it takes to meet a schedule." He has yet to speak with a company where anything is written down or documented. It's mostly just hacking. One guy at a company that provides software for a television application told him "It's just tv, not rocket science. It doesn't have to be great." Husband is extremely disspirited - not only because of how tough it is to locate a job at his age, but also because of the lax attitude of the companies out there.