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DerekB52 t1_ja6qfmx wrote

Google has employees that are completely remote, and their hybrid model has them in-office 2 days a week on average. I interviewed with them this month and a recruiter told me this around the start of the year.

I am confused by the idea of them needing to maximize office space though. With 12,000 layoffs, and remote/hybrid workers, they have to have less workers in the office than they've had in years.

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bettinafairchild t1_ja6oqfb wrote

They already do this. People select their partner based on similar education levels. And if you get donor eggs or sperm, they almost exclusively take sperm from donors who are taller than 5’10” and who went to an elite school. They include SAT scores on the application, but I don’t think they verify as there was some dude who made all kinds of bogus claims and famously a significant proportion of the kids he fathered have serious mental and emotional problems, similar to him. For donor eggs they charge a premium for women from elite schools and they’re more likely to demand to see what she looks like first and favor pretty donors.

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hummingbird_mywill t1_ja6nk3v wrote

I’m sure you can’t totally believe this though…

My husband’s parents were Polish immigrants with PhDs. Mom got cancer within a year of arriving in the US and died. Dad’s English was kind of shit so he couldn’t keep a job at his level and struggled to pay the bills as a single father. Both husband and sister-in-law went to Ivy League schools on scholarship/loans. These kinds of stories aren’t uncommon for immigrants who have a lot of brains and no money.

Matter of fact, even with me, both my parents are educated but fucking stupid with money and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars getting grifted repeatedly. I have gone on to be modestly successful, no thanks to their money, but thanks for the genetics mom and dad 🙏

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