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Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
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Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#92Is there a reason this post is flagged?
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#93I don't oppose this being flagged. But I'm curious, why was it flagged?
This type of experience isn’t uncommon.
Maybe it’s someone who knows it to be true, is uncomfortable and wants to make sure no one else can see it!?
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#94Kid’s making bank, congrats! But as an ex-L4 Googler I need to say, I’m sure he’s similarly frustrated as I was. I don’t live to maximize income - I want to maximize learning and fun. Compared to successfully launching a startup fixing bugs and launching minor features as an L4 is depressing as hell. Not everyone will have it that bad. Hopefully he’s having a better time than I did.
Maximizing learning vs maximizing earning is a great way of saying this.
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Above a certain threshold, and if you can't raise admissions, a random selection process is perfectly fair. It's certainly fairer, IMO, than having a perfectly objective ranking system that mirrors biases in society, and then using affirmative action to counteract those biases.
Fair isn’t necessarily the most important metric for schools. If your parent is a billionaire it’s perfectly rational for them to prefer you over somewhat more qualified applicants.
based on what, their willingness and ability to donate?
"the university could use a new international airport..."
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#96MAANG isn't hiring officially, and only for critical roles and senior engineers on the q.t. It's an ostensible belt-tightening that's really about repress wages and placating Wall St. by extracting even more money during economy-wide years of massive profits. MAANGs don't have below L3 or L4. L3 or L4 is entry-level while IC6-7 are senior, and IC7-9 are custom tailored, under-specified roles of engineers who can make…
> Also, I-35 S traffic is backed up as far as the eye can see and I-35 N is inching along like lukewarm molasses.
sounds about right. at least you can get drunk on dirty 6th with the rest of the uni folks
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#97Probably not intended by the poster, but this gives me hope. Universities shouldn't overvalue these. Ultimately, they are focused on academics . The profile of this person screams "Will drop out before graduating". I mean, if he applied to average universities and got rejected, that would be notable. But applying only at top universities and getting rejected? That's not at all notable.
They're not all top universities though, are they?
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#98Well, he certainly did something wrong in his applications. His high school doesn't even know he sent some of them, going by the failure to mention eg Maryland or Wisconsin in their list of colleges applied to this year. (And I get the impression this place tracks them pretty closely...)
https://gunn.pausd.org/campus-life/college-career-center/col...
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#99There's some incongruity here: college admissions are by no means fair, but they also don't evaluate for nearly the same things as Google's hiring process does. Put another way: colleges aren't qualified or equipped to make the kinds of determinations that Google does when hiring engineers, and being hired as a Google engineer prior to going to college isn't any particularly strong signal that you're prepared to go t…
Evidence suggests it is false in the details if not in entirety - his high school lists all the colleges their graduates apply to, and it does not list all of those in this story.
Re: Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
#100Probably not intended by the poster, but this gives me hope. Universities shouldn't overvalue these. Ultimately, they are focused on academics . The profile of this person screams "Will drop out before graduating". I mean, if he applied to average universities and got rejected, that would be notable. But applying only at top universities and getting rejected? That's not at all notable.
They're not all top universities though, are they?
Only one isn't