What is the chance of being hired as a chemical engineer?

Is the age a constraint (not legal but in practice) to be hired as a software engineer at Google? Is there a chance for people over 45?

• (for regular people.. not people coming from other big company)

• Answer:

  I've interviewed many engineers at Google, and of course I don't care about the person's age. What I often find is that people with more experience don't like the technical questions that I (and other people) ask, because they are pretty basic. A person with 20 years experience may think that he or she is not being taken seriously if they are asked questions that are suitable for someone fresh out of college or grad school. But the whole point of not discriminating based on age is exactly this - that I should interview a person the same way. (Of course someone who is applying for a leadership role is in a different category, but I am talking about someone roughly my level or lower, who is expected to primarily code). I want to know if you can code and if you can solve problems. If you can demonstrate that, I'd recommend hiring you. So, my advice would be is to prepare for interviews in exactly the same way as younger people do, and brush up on all the stuff you learned, but maybe didn't use for a while, and you should be just fine. Update: I realize that I come across as disrespectful of experience, so let me clarify. In order to get hired, you only need to demonstrate a certain level of competence. A person with a lot of experience should easily sail past my questions because they know more than a new graduate does. Their experience and level of performance at an interview would then mean that they are hired at a higher level (and paid more) than a new graduate. My job as an interviewer at Google is not to figure out what your level is, but merely that you are good enough and my questions are primarily designed for that. [This is my personal opinion, not Google's, etc.]