[gabbygab]

Or maybe they hire the best engineers who interview well? Being a great engineer and being a great interviewer aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. You can be both.

Also, after 20+ years in business, google engineers are still highly respected and sought after by every company for their tech expertise. If google didn't hire the best, that luster would have faded a long time ago.

Google has always been great at tech and poor at customer service. Though that seems to be a industry wide problem, rather than a google specific one.

[mtnGoat]

"sought after by every company"

certainly not sought after by my company, and i hate to speak for others, but i can name at least a handful of others where having any of the FANGs will usually get your resume circular filed. :x

[noir_lord]

If I was hiring currently been former FANG wouldn't shift the needle one way or the other.

At the scale they operate been one developer amongst tens of thousands on it's own isn't a good metric.