Google

I am close friends with current employees at Google, and I personally know the CEO. I figured with that, I could get a job. I was given an interview, but once they discovered I didn't have a college degree from Yale, Harvard, MIT, etc., I was canned

During Google's rigorous technical screening process, I was tasked with demonstrating my coding skills by crafting a program to address a specific question presented during the interview. The interviewer did not understand what I was saying.

I applied for a mid-level software engineer role at Google and received a reply from a recruiter after about two weeks. The entire process took roughly five weeks. The process included: * A recruiter screen, which was standard and unsurprising. *