Google invited me to a (virtual) onsite interview without a technical phone screen.
Things Google probably dislikes about me:
- No internal referral.
- Relatively low GPA. (I was hoping to become a math professor, but people with 3.0 undergrad GPAs do not get tenure track positions at research oriented universities)
- No papers in a publication heavy speciality.
- Only an undergraduate degree in a subfield dominated by PhDs.
- Little experience with web-scale system design.
- The top search result for my real name is a NLRB complaint I filed against my current employer ( Google has had some issues with the NLRB )
- I failed a Google phone screen in 2014.
Things Google probably likes about me.
- Undergrad in math from top 5 school.
- 8 patents. (About half are "vanity patents" with little economic value.)
- Already living in Silicon Valley.
- 10 years of experience; Currently at the senior staff engineer level at a second tier company.
- American citizen.
- Non-trivial contributions to major open source codebases.
- Female.
Is it common for Google to invite people directly onsite, even if they failed a technical phone screen several years ago?