[40yearoldman]

Yes, people still hire goggles, thinking they are getting some sort of awesome person. And yes, sometimes they do, but not because they were a google, because that person was already awesome before google.

The market is changing, and startups and small shops are paying attention. Just because you have google on your resume does not mean you know anything at all any more.

This is not google specific either, it's any big company. Folks just don't know how to build things. They are confined to whatever the new. hotness is. You would be shocked at how few people can actually run a service without kubernties, or ship software without using docker. Or worse, how to move off a legacy stack into these new fancy things.