[uluyol]

> ... we will consider our new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles.

For me the key question is this: what's will Google's job acceptance rate be for Career Certificates vs Bachelor's degrees? If they can get it to 1/4 the rate for a university education, then it seems like it has some value. Otherwise, this is all just a scam.

Good on them for the other things though.

[Traubenfuchs]

I HIGHLY doubt Google has any interest in hiring someone with a Google career certificate. Instead they will keep sieving the top performers of top universities.

It's all for publicity, improving their image, making those career certificate holders more likely pick Google products (for the companies they will work for)...

[tylerhou]

> I HIGHLY doubt Google has any interest in hiring someone with a Google career certificate. Instead they will keep sieving the top performers of top universities.

This is patently untrue; there are many internal pushes to hire from people without degrees; recruiters make a concerted effort to reach out to students at underrepresented universities (including historically black universities).

I myself work at Google. I don't have a degree, and barely completed any college.