Google Accused of Age Discrimination
Google discriminates against older tech workers by disproportionally hiring the under-40 set, a 64-year-old job-seeker claims in a federal class action.
Robert Heath says he applied for a software engineer job at Google in 2011. He was 60 years old, and had worked for IBM, Compaq and General Dynamics dating back to 1978. He has master certifications in both Java and C++, a rarity for an IT professional, he says in the April 22 complaint.
He claims he had a cursory phone interview in February 2011, in which the interviewer never asked about his background or qualifications.
Heath says the interviewer did not seem fluent in English, used a poorly functioning speaker phone, and refused to cooperate with him in his attempts to communicate through Google Docs.
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