I am at Google (and have been for quite somewhat over a decade now), and am over 40 too. Despite a lot of internal criticism about "the old Google" and how things have changed, they are still a very good company to work for in my opinion. Lots of well-known benefits, decent comp, and critically a very good work-life balance (no mandatory work-from-office so far, I probably average about 0.5 to 1 days a week in the of…
I'd love to work at Google and I'm a really well rounded full stack dev/great problem solver but I don't see how I can get anyone's attention at Google without a CS degree and being 15 years younger. Do you think you'd get the job if you applied now?