[40yearoldman]

That is sort of what I am Ponting out. It is silly that folks are still trying to hire people from "Google".

I do a ton of interviews. The majority of Googlers can't solve any system or build anything without saying "spanner", or "Borg". They can sort of talk about what they do, but sure as hell can't build a spanner or Borg. About 50% of them can't even name the equivalent outside of google.

Sometimes the interview question is to solve something hard, and Googlers point to some internal google tool that only google has, but has no clue on how to actually build that tool.

Googlers live in a walled garden, and basically have to go back to school once they leave google and start working at another company.

Is this true for all goggles? No, google gobbles up a ton of people who have real world experience before google. But if you are dealing with people who interned at a few places and googled for 3 or even 5 years, then they probably are no better than any other new grad higher, but will cost you a ton more.