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Last year I got a call from a Google recruiter. After an initial polite exchange, they wouldn't consider me at all because I never finished college. This blog a

Last year I got a call from a Google recruiter. After an initial polite exchange, they wouldn't consider me at all because I never finished college. This blog article is a nice feel-good piece, but I think that their Googley advice should at least mention their actual education requirements.

ntoshev 18y ago
I wonder if their college-graduation bias is based on preconceptions or actual HR data from their past hires.
- Hexstream 18y ago
  What if in the past they hired based on preconceptions about college graduation?
  - ntoshev 18y ago
    Then they wouldn't have data form non-graduate hires, isn't it obvious?
mlinsey 18y ago
How long has it been since you left college? I had exactly the same experience recently, but I also only left college 15 months ago.
- nonrecursive 18y ago
  It had been four years