Business Insider recommends redirectiong your answer to focus on experience.
Ultimately, you face a choice in answering this question.
If you tell them it’s a discriminatory questionwhich it isyou risk not getting the job.
The interviewer may ask out of ignorance rather than malice.
Sometimes hiring managers just don’t know proper questions.
The answers focus on your job experience or skills, rather than your chronological age.
Would that be helpful?
Check out the link for other ways to respond to the question.
When an Interviewer Asks Your Age| Business Insider
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