Working and hiring from google in the past 5 maybe 10 years is just silly. You go to google, learn google, and are useless in the real world.<p>I don't care how hard your interviews are, you still will come to every interview and fail because "at google I used Borg, and have no clue how to actually do anything", "at google I used spanner, and know not how to do anything".<p>Google will stunt your career, and startups and small shops are simply going to avoid ex-goolers. It's no longer a badge of honer.