"It's just a huge red flag to me that the employees of a massive international company could be so globally unaware looking at the dates and locations of things

"It's just a huge red flag to me that the employees of a massive international company could be so globally unaware looking at the dates and locations of things printed on my resume to not ask a single question about it." For a large company that is more or less irrelevant unless you are interviewing for a position specific to varied international experience. Making sure you can program is far more important. I work at a really international setting ... good C++ is good C++ regardless of the cultural background of the programmer. Which in itself is really friggin awesome - in my experience a programmer is a programmer with any cultural background just as long they grok the CS and programming fundamentals. Perhaps Google has observed the same? For smaller companies where the interviewers will be dealing with you day to day the personal details are more interesting.