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

[CoffeeCat]

92. grantcart, with all due respect...

...I have always enjoyed your posts and I consider you one of the great DU stalwarts, but I also remember Google saying that they conducted an enormous amount of interviews and found only a few thousand qualified applicants.

I am sorry, I don't remember if they said that they interviewed a million people, but I know the number was very high. I remember talking about this briefly with my husband who has worked in the tech field for the past 30 years.

I do find the OP credible, and I am interested in what he has to say. I am only vaguely familiar with the Google hiring story--and this OP jumped out at me. I'm interested from a PR perspective. It appears that Google may have been attempting to demonize the US workforce, in an attempt to justify their outsourcing. They could blame the American worker, when really it was their greedy profit motives that were the problem.

Again, I'm new to this story--but I think the OP's story is fascinating and a window into the experience of one person who was part of the "Google Can't Find Enough Qualified US Workers" meme.

This guy's story fits exactly with the negative messaging that I remember being out there about American STEM workers in general. The negative PR job they did on STEM workers is similar to the demonizing that union members and state workers have been receiving. We all know that corporate forces are backed by big money and they systematically take down people and causes with very sophisticated planning. They busted the unions by making them unpopular. They've made sure that everyone is envious and bitter toward state workers--for receiving generous benefits. They do this because major corporations are cutting benefits and state workers with decent benefits demonstrates that corporations could do the same--they just refuse due to greed.

It makes sense that corporate forces would want to disparage the American worker. The economy is going to hell in a hand basket and real unemployment is in the low 20's. They need America divided. They need us to hate the poor (another meme they've successfully spread) and they need America to view the unemployed with disdain--not sympathy. If they can position the American IT worker as unintelligent or unqualified--no one cares when they are unemployed, or when their benefits are not extended. See how that works?

I will try to find more info on the numbers that Google interviewed and I'll also ask my husband. He's a VP at a major tech firm and loves this kind of stuff.

Again, I respect you grantcart and always appreciate your insights and posts. I think this guy is the real deal. Untold numbers were interviewed at Google and did not get a job. I don't think the point is this person's interviewing skills. I am wondering if the Google situation was an operation--intending to spread the meme that out-of-work IT people have no one to blame but themselves--because they're just not qualified or smart enough.

Think about it. You can always reject what I'm saying, but just think about it.