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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by fergie on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:32AM (#22886748)
Does anybody get hired for SWE positions at Google _without_ an internal referral? When I was interviewing there 6 or so years ago I was under the impression that you, in practice, had to have an insider vouch for you.
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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by smueller1234 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:29AM (#22887019)
The only internal reference I had was a distant acquaintance who - as they said themselves - just submitted one that basically read "don't know them much but they don't seem to be a jerk".

So you can absolutely get hired in engineering without internal references. (I'm also on a hiring committee myself.)

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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by donalhunt on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:50PM (#22893401)
When I got hired back in 2004 that was pretty much the bar (helped that I knew how to fix servers I suspect too)!! :)
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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by fnayr on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:31AM (#22887339)
I was hired last year without a reference. I just submitted a resume to the careers page.
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