I know what you're saying but I don't think there is any kind of nefarious backroom discussion that goes on to this purpose.
I think more likely though are the accidental favoritism in the industry where engineers submit resumes of other engineers they know who are looking for a job who, surprise, are also white males.
I don't believe it is either racist or sexist however. It's just "who people know". Nonetheless, you're going to build a hive-minded team if you don't go out of your way to break these patterns.
Perhaps similarly leetcode interviews come about from engineers who were leetcode interviewed. Again, no need to jump to ageism as the cause.
(And if anything I think it may have turned a corner where the older devs may have more experience with interesting algorithms that, I don't know, might not be taught any longer in CS?)
I think more likely though are the accidental favoritism in the industry where engineers submit resumes of other engineers they know who are looking for a job who, surprise, are also white males.
I don't believe it is either racist or sexist however. It's just "who people know". Nonetheless, you're going to build a hive-minded team if you don't go out of your way to break these patterns.
Perhaps similarly leetcode interviews come about from engineers who were leetcode interviewed. Again, no need to jump to ageism as the cause.
(And if anything I think it may have turned a corner where the older devs may have more experience with interesting algorithms that, I don't know, might not be taught any longer in CS?)