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.'"

Comments

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[Anonymous Coward]

I tried to google this but I told me the news was too old.

Re:First

[Nick Number]

I tried to google this but I told me the news was too old.

Why did you tell you that?

Re:See, I told you.

[lucm]

Grow up, idiot. Not every male hiring manager is a boob guy. There are quite a few ass guys out there too.

Re:Does indeed happen.

[sexconker]

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No software solution?

[Overzeetop]

You know, they should implement some kind of a search engine on their HR database so that they can look up past interviewees to prevent multiple recruitment gaffs like this. Now, I know that not everyone can write a custom search engine in house, but I hear that both Microsoft and Yahoo have up-and-coming search engine technology they might be able to license and implement that would let them mine their existing data.