Age discrimination in the Corporation's Good

The average employee of Google - it is a relatively young, ambitious people. So happened that a senior programmer on the project is not only a senior in terms of experience and professional skills, but also in terms of age. On the basis of this and there is age discrimination: managers do not want to see in the ranks of his subordinates people older than themselves. This is a problem faced Robert Heath, who in 2011 tried to get in Google programmer. At that time, Robert was already 60 years old. On assurance specialists HR-department it as a software engineer, is an excellent candidate for the position under consideration and have the necessary skills to work and a great experience, but was not adopted, according to Heath, because of his age. After refusing to Google Robert filed in court for discrimination based on age.

In its response to the claim the company said: "We believe that the trial will show the irrelevance of the claims of the plaintiff and intend to actively defend its position in court." The very fact of filing such a claim could have an effect in the future, which ultimately affect the policy of recruiting companies. Between 2007 and 2013 the company's staff explosively increased from 9 500 to 28 000 people. In 2013 the average age of Google in the US was only 29 years old, while the national average is the value for the IT-companies is 43 years. Ultimately, the suit may become a precedent Robert jurisprudence USA.

The average age of employees is calculated by Payscale, which analyzed 840 questionnaires workers Google, based in the US. Accuracy of data is small - about 4%. The data were obtained by legal means: people come in and leave their Payscale profiles in order to understand their value in the labor market and the proposed conditions in the industry. In the survey, participants provided information about their employers, working conditions and the age and sex structure of the team to Payscale on the basis of these data could make the overall picture.

Feed Robert petition to the court has been called the behavior of a recruiter. At that time, Google was looking for a candidate for the developer with knowledge of C / C ++ and Java. With Robert recruiter contacted and informed that "after reviewing your resume, we have decided that you are a great candidate for our company and we offer you to come to us (in California) for an interview."

The first strangeness began during maintenance telephone interview. Robert rang with a 10 minute delay and, in his words, conduct interviews people "could barely speak in English and used in the speakerphone." Hit several times politely asked the interviewer to use a headset, but his requests were ignored.

Quality and degree of proficiency impact on the understanding of each other. One of the stages of the interview was the decision an easy task: write a short program to find the answer to one of the questions asked Robert. He dealt with this, and after writing the code offered to send it to e-mail or rassharit in Google Docs. Instead, the interviewer asked "to dictate the code line by line on the phone." Robert has fulfilled this requirement, but he had the impression that "on the other end just did not understand what he dictated," says the lawsuit.

To understand the situation it is worth mentioning how has the experience and expertise Robert Heath to his claim to the behavior of the recruiter did not seem unreasonable.

Robert Heath lives in Boynton Beach, Florida (the other end of the continent from California) and has a bachelor's degree in information technology, he worked in IBM, Compaq and General Dynamics. He is a certified Java programmer with the result of "more than 96% of candidates pass the test before."

Heath lawsuit in the preface refers to another discriminatory moment in the history of the company. Earlier filed a lawsuit against Google former technical manager of the company, whose colleagues called «Old Fuddy-Duddy» ( an old fuddy-duddy old or boring, fuddy-duddy - a man with a backward world view and the views of approx. I>).

According to Robert in the company disproportionately little older workers, and hate speech in Google in their address are not secret and are taking place.

How justified claims Robert will be decided in court, but it is not clear how it was linked to low, according to Heath, qualification recruiter with neglect and discrimination against him as a candidate on the basis of age.

Via computerworld.com

Source: geektimes.ru/post/249562/