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Fortune
Emma Burleigh

Tech used to be a mecca for young talent—now, AI start-ups are hiring fewer entry-level talent in favor of older workers with top degrees

Tech worker walks to office (Credit: mihailomilovanovic / Getty Images)

Tech companies like Meta and Google have built a reputation for snatching up talent before they’re out of college, and sticking them into six-figure roles. But now, the incoming wave of new AI start-ups are turning away young, digital native workers in favor of their veteran colleagues.

According to researchers at Harvard Business School and non-profit business school INSEAD, AI-native startups are building smaller and flatter teams with fewer entry-level workers than their non-AI-enabled peers.

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