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Definitely go for the interview. You have no reason to discuss your pregnancy with interviewers. If your pregnancy is obvious and the interviewers bring it up
by yongjik 11y ago
Definitely go for the interview. You have no reason to discuss your pregnancy with interviewers. If your pregnancy is obvious and the interviewers bring it up (as a kind of ice-breaking "small talk"), don't be alarmed, just play it cool, as if they're commenting on your hat.
Remember, Google is a big company, and unless you're being hired for a very specific position, none of those people who interview you will likely be in your team when you join. So, "What happens after she delivers a baby?" is not really the interviewers' concern.
If you're really worried, you could tell the recruiter/HR person after the interview is over and they contact you. I don't expect anything other than "Oh, congratulations!" But if (God forbid) any one of them is stupid enough to say "Oh really? Now we have to re-think your application.", then you have a story to tell HN, and hopefully somebody will be fired from Google.
(I mean, statistically speaking, none of the people you meet during the interview process will be in the same team as you when you join, so I don't see why anyone would be "worried" about your pregnancy. A competent new hire is still a competent new hire even if she has to delay joining the company for, say, half a year, and Google has so many employees that "one hired person will not be available for several months" shouldn't be a problem for anyone.)
- Ex-Googler
* p.s. If you do get rejected, don't assume it's because of your pregnancy, even if somebody commented on it during the interview. Chances are that such comment wouldn't even make it into the interview feedback (if if they do, they will be summarily ignored). Lots of really great people get rejected from Google for mysterious reasons all the time.
- msmom 11y agoGot it. Very appreciate! My interview will be a special hire so the team that is supposed to hire me will do the interview. Anyway, thanks for your advice!