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>works for Google because they're such an attractive employer that they're dealing with essentially zero risk that they accidentally filter out all their qualified applicants with stuff like this

You know the founder of homebrew was filtered out by exactly this, right?

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Yeah, that's the context of this thread.

I said that there's minimal risk that they filter out all qualified applicants, not that they won't filter out any of them.

“Capable of writing software that solves a real world problem” isn’t necessarily Google’s bar. It’s entirely possible that the creator of Homebrew doesn’t have the level of skill that Google requires.

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