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In Google’s defense, it’s not that Ben didn’t go to college it’s that he’s still a college student. This is less “experienced ML dev iced out over lack of degree” and more “college kid does something amazing and some people aren’t sold to hire him on the spot.”

That said, I wouldn’t feel bad for Ben. The world is his oyster.

Likely this was for a position for which yearly total comp is in the single digit millions. I'd guess they are highly sought after and quite many people apply. So such filtering, while sad, is something to be expected.

Best devs I ever worked with never completed high school.