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This is intentional, they are filtering out employees they don't want out of the gate. FAANGs want young, single engineers who will eat, sleep, and breathe the corporate brand and do way over their 40 hrs a week.

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Google employee here. I work in engineering but collaborate very closely with recruiters and executives. While I don't speak for the company nor for all of its countless employees, I can say that in four years of employment, nobody ever, EVER said, implied, or appeared to act in a way that made me think that they want what you describe.

Case in point, I'm in my forties and have a family with young kids and have arguably been successful as well.

A brilliant way to do that while skirting the law would be to arrange for interviewees to have a short walk from the front desk or whatever, with a chaperone and a person who appears to be another candidate but is actually a shill, who shares personal information (the sort that is illegal to ask about) in the manner of small talk.

I wonder if/how many companies do this.

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