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I imagine it's possible there is age discrimination at Google but I doubt it contributed in this case. Why would Google have contacted her multiple times if age had been a problem before?

Like the rest of us she's not getting any younger...

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Why would Google have contacted her multiple times if age had been a problem before?

Why would Google contact anyone multiple times inf there had been any problems before?

Obviously their process must include some sort of returning to potential recruits, or the recruiter just has no data on the previous attempts to recruit her. If it was the case that age was the reason they chose not to hire her, they know damn well not to write that down.

People in the US don't put their age on their resume, and many people past a certain age try to obscure data on the resume that would give their age away. It's illegal to ask in an interview, so perhaps they didn't realize until they saw the candidate in person. I remember reading somewhere the average age of google employees (that's all employees, not new hires) is below 30. A group like that isn't likely to hire someone too old for them to relate to any more than a company with an average age over 50 is going to be interested in hiring a 19 yr old. We can't relate to people of a different age, that's the way it's always been.

Where I live, if your date of birth (and in some cases recent color photograph) isn't on your resume, they'll assume you have something to hide and you'll get no response. Might as well be upfront about it.

That's odd. Where is that?

afaik, South Korea is like that as well.

Here is a sample korean resume that shows a color photo, age and SSN:

http://www.soompi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/resume.jpg

Why did Amazon contact me to invite me to a hiring event, only to immediately reject me due to "prior interview feedback"? Sometimes the left hand doesn't talk to the right at these large companies.

Because it's a big organization and recruiters are lazy or out of the loop.

It's possible to be contacted by multiple recruiters at the same company, no?

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