[intrasight]

I've interacted with several Googlers over the hears who said point-blank that Google won't hire people over 40.

[nappy-doo]

That's funny, I was just rehired at Google. I'm over 40. 4/6 of my coworkers are over 40. I sat on hiring committee for 4 years before I left a couple of years ago (FB is a terrible place to work, BTW), and we _NEVER_ discussed the age of a candidate. Looking around my office (a major US office), and I'd estimate > 50% are over 40.

[davidgay]

I can prove (by counterexample) that this statement is false - I was hired at 41.

In fact, I'm somewhat dubious that there's any googler who doesn't have a reasonably close colleague hired above the age of 40.

[Itaxpica]

Fully half of my current team at Google will be very surprised to hear that