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

[CoffeeCat]

89. Can you help me understand the back story?

Are you suggesting that Google set up these interviews--just to go through the motions of interviewing thousands of
people--knowing that they would reject most US workers? Then, upon rejection, Google could insist that US STEM workers were unqualified and use this stunt to validate their outsourcing?

Is that what you are saying?

Furthermore, from what you and others have said--they hire so many foreign workers because they will work for less. Is that true?

Why would Google have done this? I apologize for being unfamiliar with this story and I appreciate any insight you can provide. Why did the company feel the need to go to such lengths to prove that US STEM workers are unqualified? Did the US government criticize them for hiring so many non-US employees?

Do you think that it's possible that the government (or other nefarious corporate forces) could have set up this entire charade to perpetuate a negative narrative about the US workforce? I ask this because there are clearly forces in the media, government and in the corporate world who routinely demonize certain groups. State workers come to mind. Most of the country now believes that state workers are lazy, overpaid jerks who suck money dry from state budgets while reaping benefits that no one deserves.

Because the economy is worsening and the corporatist plan to destroy the middle class is progressing--I wonder if they're not spreading negative memes about workers (IT/tech people like yourself and other groups) to control the messaging about the unemployed in America. If people are critical of YOU--and believe that our STEM workforce is technically illiterate and unable to do the job--when you're out of work--people won't sympathize with you. They'll blame the victim.

Instead of blaming greedy corporations that only care about profit--they'll blame you.

I don't know if that makes sense to you, or if that seems far off in left field. I am a PR person and I can see and feel the PR plans unfolding in front of me--because that's what I do for a living. Most people see headlines and stories--and events. When I see a media story or an article, I "reverse engineer" the final media memes and can easily figure out the plan they crafted and the strategy they unfolded in the boardroom. It's easy to see how they use events, well-placed editorials and articles and also social media to inject messages into the public.

That's why I'm asking you why Google did this. You're in the tech world, so why do you think Google did this and who ultimately drove them to do it?