Google accepts such a terribly small slice of applicants that it's easy for any engineer in the top 0.75% of overall engineers to think they're talented and deserving but come to find out they're just not in the top 0.5%. That distinction can be really hard to see and easy to attribute to ageism. That said, I suppose there could be some actual ageism going on too.
> The lawsuit claimed the median age at Google was 29, based on data collected by Payscale, which the judge cited in the ruling.
Article also said that Google's going to guesstimate ages based on graduation dates in order to provide evidence of applicant ages. But knowing the median age of applicants is critical. It's a shame they included the median age of employees without including the median age of applicants in the article. "29" might match perfectly with the applicant pool.
> The lawsuit claimed the median age at Google was 29, based on data collected by Payscale, which the judge cited in the ruling.
Article also said that Google's going to guesstimate ages based on graduation dates in order to provide evidence of applicant ages. But knowing the median age of applicants is critical. It's a shame they included the median age of employees without including the median age of applicants in the article. "29" might match perfectly with the applicant pool.