Judges Reinstate Charges In Google Age Discrimination Suit

theodp writes "A California appeals court has reinstated former Stanford prof Brian Reid's age-discrimination suit against Google, ruling that a lower Court erred in siding with Google and rejecting Mr. Reid's claims. From the Court Decision (PDF): 'We conclude that Reid produced sufficient evidence that Google's reasons for terminating him were untrue or pretextual, and that Google acted with discriminatory motive such that a factfinder would conclude Google engaged in age discrimination.' As side notes, helping Reid make his case is CS Prof Norman Matloff, while Google's actions are being defended by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of pretexting-was-not-generally-unlawful fame."

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Re:You need to polish your interview skills grandp

[IgnoramusMaximus]

Those questions in an interview isn't about being smart or knowing something. It just shows if you are prepared or not (just like the SATs, GRE etc). "Snot-nosed" college kids don't like those questions either, just their college consolers told them the rules of the game and they came prepared.

Which, of course, would represent the Apex of Stupidity, if it were not, as many people already pointed out, a tool for ensuring that your employees belong to a certain social/age group.

Or to put it another way: this is the equivalent of asking questions about the sexual habits of sea cucumbers, after having put out a word on the University campus that this will be the required "curriculum". Uncritical students, having been indoctrinated in memorizing any odd crap the teachers demand, would simply subject themselves to this kind of treatment. Anyone with any sort of real-life experience would go: WTF?! And subsequently fail the "Interview" for being "unprepared" after having assumed that this must be some sort of a joke because no one with two neurons to rub together would ever consider this being a method of selecting skilled personnel. And the joke is on them, for, of course, this is not a method of selecting skilled personnel. It is a way to expand your circle of "cool kids".

In short, the "rules of the game" are rigged by Google (as they are rigged by the college teachers to their own ends) but unlike that of colleges, Google's "rigging" runs contrary to the Labour Laws. Oops!