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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.'"
TFA states here last interview with Google was in 2013 and the bought the farm in 2014.
These do not overlap. Her LinkedIn profile would have been different in 2013.
It may very well be that she got into dairy farming due to being jaded with the job market.
She may only be joining the case because she's no longer interrested in IT jobs (which certainly will become impossible after the case).
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
You suppose wrong, and in the UK a university degree is a life investment - in fact, most students nowadays are expected never to be able to pay off their loans their entire working lives.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
I don't know if maps is a steaming pile, but I do know that the new maps and especially street view are really, really sluggish in comparison to classic.
As a n00b driver in a big city with heavy traffic I loved being able to "drive" through key points of an unknown route the day before to see what the streets were like, what lane would be best before entering a 5-lane-roundabout, what the parking situation near the destination looked like etc.
F_ck that with the new version, too slow; even on an i7, there's almost no such thing as having a _quick_ look.
Being unemployed causes a myriad of problems one doesn't have whilst employed. In the U.S., health care is a big inducement to work for "THE COMPANY".
Because I bought a house in a community that was as close to the city as I could without selling a kidney. I have two children in the school system. I would lose $50,000 if I sold my house due to the state of the market.
I am not going to relocate for a job. It is way too easy to get fired (or have your job inexplicably "eliminated") and find yourself in a new place with no network and no family support.
Not everyone is single and 23. I'm sure some asshole is going to chime in and tell me that it's my own fault for choosing to have a family, and that I deserve whatever misery I get for my "bad" decision. Then they'll go back to watching Japanese scat porn in their mother's basement.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Google recruiting is just that disorganized. I too got to the in-person interview stage, but did not make it though for that position. Then about a week later, ironically while I was sitting in a conference session next to several of the Google employees who interviewed me, I got an email from a Google recruiter who was trying to recruit me for that exact same position.
Note that this was an internal Google recruiter, not a "bounty hunter". They really are that disorganized.
And if her interviews went anything like mine, the in-person has MUCH higher standards than the phone screen, and does not necessarily have much bearing on the job I was being interviewed for (three interviewers asked me repeated questions about how hard links are implemented in on-disk filesystem structures for a Mac Sysadmin position).