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

[CoffeeCat]

100. I think you have a point...

...and I get what you are saying. However, I think people are getting too bogged down in giving
twins.fan interviewing advice. People are looking at one tree (twins.fan) and they're not seeing the forest (the big picture story that Google released to the public about US STEM workers being unqualified and unskilled.

This is why I find twins.fan's OP and this entire thread so fascinating. Google did publicly state that they were having problems filling jobs with qualified US workers. This was a huge "campaign" in my opinion and it was intentional on the part of Google. Maybe they were attempting to rationalize their hiring of cheap, foreign labor. Maybe Google was co-opted as part of some Koch Brothers plan to demonize the unemployed in this country. I don't know the WHY, but I do know that Google did this.

We all have to ask ourselves---how often does a company release public information about its internal hiring processes and how they are going? This is highly unusual. Google intentionally released this information that painted the US STEM worker in a very disparaging light. This story was an international story. It was covered by broadcast and print media and was the topic of many editorials and op-eds.

This is not an accident, people. If information is out there--it is because someone wanted it out there. I've mentioned before. I am a PR consultant. Seventy percent of what you read in newspapers and magazines--is the result of a PR person pitching a story (on behalf of a company) to a particular media member. If Google released information about interviewing untold numbers of people and experiencing a shortage of qualified US applicants--then Google and others wanted that info and that meme out there.

This was a concerted, intentional campaign. Make no mistake about it.

We need to ask WHY. WHY would corporate America want to disparage the American worker--or IT workers in general?

I say, follow the money.