I am 34 and have worked at various fortune 500s in the Midwest and there seems to be no issues here at all with regards to ageism.
My dad is a 64 year old programmer who has never put any effort outside of paid working hours to keep his skills up and he has never been without work for more than a couple months in 30 years.
I get slammed with LinkedIn recruiters every day. Most of the jobs aren't glamorous, but they are almost all 6 figure jobs and you can get a nice house in the city for 300k on up. Take your extra cash and go on a vacation or 2 in the dead of winter (maybe to sf even)
34, cloud security architect, also getting 2-3 cold calls from recruiters daily from LinkedIn. Salaries ranging from ~$160-200k/year to act as a subject matter expert/consultant to the rest of the org (from my experience).
Maybe some startup is going to throw a fit about age because they can't work you to death (or larger established SV orgs like Google, Facebook, or Amazon), but proper compensation and work/life balance is alive and well in the rest of larger US enterprises.
I live in an Eastern European country and most software companies, web development agencies etc. assume that because I'm "old" (32 years old), I can only use Spring, non-object-oriented PHP and other old technologies and that I don't know what React, Angular, Rails etc. are. I have a GitHub account with some projects but nobody looks at it, my date of birth is more important for everyone.
My dad is a 64 year old programmer who has never put any effort outside of paid working hours to keep his skills up and he has never been without work for more than a couple months in 30 years.
I get slammed with LinkedIn recruiters every day. Most of the jobs aren't glamorous, but they are almost all 6 figure jobs and you can get a nice house in the city for 300k on up. Take your extra cash and go on a vacation or 2 in the dead of winter (maybe to sf even)