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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by data_spy on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:37AM (#25304322)
It used to mean something more than it does now. I noticed ex-Googlers were well above average in 2012, now they can be below avg. I have a colleague of mine at my current job that makes a point of being an ex-Googler but they only worked there for 6 months, so it is kind of meaningless.
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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by jghn on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:26PM (#25305109)
It's always been a distribution. Some are amazing, some are normal, others are less than normal. They're all really good at the handful of things Google screens for, but otherwise it's just like any other distribution of developers.

As a hiring manager I view Google on someone's resume as a non-signal. If however they are the sort of person who draws attention to having worked at Google I view that as a negative signal.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by vsareto on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:52AM (#25304582)
Global average or people-who-work-at-FAANG average?

The frame of reference here is important, otherwise average is pretty meaningless since we have no objective list of what an average developer consists of.

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