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To be fair this is what happens when you hire entirely from the technical Ivy League. No one wants to do the last 10% that's really the last 80% of the work be
by georgeburdell 5y ago
To be fair this is what happens when you hire entirely from the technical Ivy League. No one wants to do the last 10% that's really the last 80% of the work because it doesn't carry the same visibility.
For what it's worth, Google, or at least some subsegment, does seem to be trying to fix this issue. I had a somewhat offensive conversation with a recruiter recently where they told me they're looking for people (like me) with non-standard backgrounds who don't necessarily have the pedigree that the usual Google SWE hire has. I hope they also extend this thinking to moms with young children. I know a good many technical women who fell off the career ladder after having children and were never seem to be able to get a chance to get back on, ultimately taking jobs far beneath their abilities or just shifting industries altogether.
- ethbr0 5y agoApparently the "P" in your middle name stands for "non-standard Pedigree"?
- analyst74 5y agoI think their elite school preference is only for new grads, the experienced pipeline has always been open to people with less pedigree.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoThey’ll give interviews to most and downplay the difficulty of the interviews on social forums in order to keep the accept rate low. You have to be an intellectual elite in order to pass the interviews either way.