[Google] Direct to Onsite after Failing phone screen in 2014?

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?

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