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Google was more elitist than most in its early years. As I recall, candidates had to have graduated from an elite CS program with and provide a transcript when

• pjmlp 2mo ago
  This same Google, > The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt > It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical One would expect folks coming from an elite CS program, and able to master Google's hiring processes, to be a bit more skilful. Ironically all those four languages that get mentioned have quite advanced type systems, versus the one for "simple" minds.
  • nitwit005 2mo ago
    A lot of people at Google (and some other companies mentioned here) understood their hiring process didn't function as well as desired.