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Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit
dcblogs writes: An Ivy league graduate, with a Ph.D. in geophysics, Cheryl Fillekes, who also specializes in Linux and Unix systems, was contacted by Google recruiters four separate times over a seven year period. In each instance, she did well enough on the phone interviews to get invited to an in-person interview but was rejected every time for a job. She has since joined an age discrimination lawsuit against Google filed about two months ago by another older worker. "The amended lawsuit also alleges that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received 'multiple complaints of age discrimination by Google, and is currently conducting an extensive investigation.'"
It may be that certain personality types don't fit in at Google, and as people get older their personalities tend to develop into those types.
I'm afraid that's you also being ageist. You can't generalise, any more than you can generalise by gender or race. People have all sorts of personalities, and they develop in all sorts of different directions through their lives.
I applied there a while back, a decade or so.
The interview questions on the form I found to be really bias towards younger hipster type of people.
Asking questions on political philosophy and working in a startup environment.
Experience for Google doesn't seem to matter.
The issue with age discrimination is from experience with that older fellow who is just coasting to retirement not willing to learn or change, and has been in the same position for decades.
However there are also the ones who are just as on top of it as them whipper snappers and can code circles around them.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.