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An article in InfoWorld reveals a "motion for conditional certification of collective action status" has been filed in Federal Court:
Just over a year ago, two job applicants filed a lawsuit against Google. They claimed they were rejected because of their age; both were over 40.
A federal court in San Jose, Calif., is now being asked to decide whether many others who sought jobs at Google and were also rejected can join this case.
The motion is being made for a selective class-action:
The court is being ask to make this an "opt-in" case -- meaning potential parties must decide whether to join this action. The plaintiff's motion, if it succeeds, will require Google to provide the names and contact information of every applicant over age 40 who interviewed in-person for a job in one of the three engineering areas. The affected parties will then be contacted.
Have any Soylentils interviewed with Google lately?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 01 2016, @07:12AM
If there was age discrimination they would not have made it to an on-site interview.
To wildly speculate I would imagine the individuals had quite great paper credentials but couldn't actually put out the goods when it came to Google's more skill based interview system. And I don't think this is uncommon. There lots of companies, filled with individuals who have amazing credentials on paper, who somehow manage a phenomenal level of collective incompetence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 01 2016, @07:39AM
Let's say I want you to weed me out before an on-site interview. For your convenience, where on my paper credentials should I indicate my age?
(Score: 2) by b0ru on Friday July 01 2016, @08:14AM
I'm not defending google, but to be fair, you can gauge someone's age group based on other metrics, for example, their experience e.g. worked at X for N to M years, Q years ago, and so on. The programming languages and technologies they're familiar with are probably also indicative; someone who writes Forth compared to someone who is an 'expert' in python web crap. Long story short, you leak this sort of information all over you resume without putting down your date of birth.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by John Bresnahan on Friday July 01 2016, @08:25AM
When did you get your degree(s)? Or are you planning on leaving you educational history off of your resume after awhile?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 01 2016, @04:27PM
Most resume 'experts' I have been using say just put the school and degrees. Do not put the years.
The rest of the resume leaks that info though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 01 2016, @10:16AM
FWIW I've posted stuff on Usenet groups long ago enough to not be a 20 year old. I'm also old and young enough to remember that Google acquired Deja News and its Usenet archive...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday July 01 2016, @08:21PM
Those in Google might just Google for your age. ;)
If they do that to me, well, it just seems no one wants to hire a 2400 year old Samian these days.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by PocketSizeSUn on Friday July 01 2016, @08:09AM
Well this is a few years ago but I did find the on-site interview to be quite fun. Most of the interviewers were quite professional and interested in the how and why. But there was at least one specific type-A hyper, young, know it all that could definately be construed as an ageist. If they hired more like him and continued to allow him to be in the line of hires then yes Google would eventually be running into reasonable claims of age discrimination hiring.
There is also the recent school graduate problem that permeates the bay area that any company there would have to actively push against and Google strikes me as the kind of place that runs with it rather that push back against it.
So I respectfully disagree. The HR side running the show up to the on-site interview is quite conscious of not considering age and trying to get the best candidates in the door. They just don't have or exercise much control over the actual on-site interview aside from scheduling the meeting(s) and taking the final votes.
From another perspective I think working at Google when I was recently out of school would have been a blast and after a couple decades in the business it is far down most list of places to work. YMMV.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 01 2016, @02:19PM
One way to tell for sure: how many over-40 employees has Google hired in the past 5 years?
(Score: 1) by JavaDevGuy on Friday July 01 2016, @03:35PM
They would if they had not put their date of birth on their CV.
The following 'wild speculation' then sounds rather agist in it's own right as it seems to imply that as developers over 40 they were unable to be technically compitent. As a technical leader of teams of all ages I've never seen a correlation between age and quality of work. The spread of competence has generally been age agnostic.
BTW If some one can point to a data set than my anecdotal evidence I'd be interested to see if my experience maps to the reality of the situation.