For those who think that there is a skills shortage, let me tell you about my Google job interview

[twins.fan]

78. Oh, OK O' Wise One

You left some stuff out. I was there; you weren't.

I have said over and over, that maybe I was not right for the job, but the person conducting the interview was not equipped to make that assessment.

Here is the contradiction. Google claims that technical qualifications are in short supply. If the ability to communicate with people who are fluent in a foreign language was in short supply, don't you think that that would have been in the job requirement? Maybe across the job title, you would see something like, "Software Engineer who can speak Mandarin" would have been the job title?

Or maybe Google is real sneaky! Instead of having us study all the stuff that we are supposed to study, like hash tables and Java and C++, maybe they could tell us to go take a course in Mandarin so we can pass the job interview with their workers from Red China.