"it's a younger person's game." If you expect to work on projects like Google Maps/Earth, Android, search, images (machine learning), cardboard VR, gmail, etc.

"it's a younger person's game." If you expect to work on projects like Google Maps/Earth, Android, search, images (machine learning), cardboard VR, gmail, etc. etc. and don't have an understand of algorithms or data structures, then Google isn't really the place for you. You can't expect "frameworks" or libraries to do everything for you