It depends on the company. I'm 57 and I've been programming for 35 years. I was hired to write air traffic control software for a contractor to Lockheed Martin because I had "a lot of experience" which I figure is what you need when you're trying to prevent one plane flying into another one. After that contract ended, I tried to get a job writing air traffic control software at Thales and was turned down because there were "too many jobs" on my résumé. I explained that most of them were short-term contracts but it didn't help so perhaps the "too many jobs" was a legal way of saying I'm too old.
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