Google will not hire one group, middle aged.That is not entirely true. I am middle-aged, and their recruiters ping me periodically to see if I am interested in leaving Microsoft to come there.
I would agree that there can be a subtle form of age discrimination at some companies. I have definitely seen it at Microsoft, although the interview system there is designed to try and minimize the ability for one person's bias to exclude (or include) a candidate. People make decisions based on their personal beliefs, right or wrong, and there is no way to ever make that entirely fair (or even to say what "fair" is).
Nothing wrong there, to say that there is is to deny that a person has the right to their own thoughts/actions.
I would agree that there can be a subtle form of age discrimination at some companies. I have definitely seen it at Microsoft, although the interview system there is designed to try and minimize the ability for one person's bias to exclude (or include) a candidate.
I can believe that — I had an interview with Microsoft a while back [about two years], about two years, and there were a decent range of ages in the several people who conducted my interview. (I think the reason they didn't move forward with hiring was that I was pretty vocal in my distrust of cloud-based computing/storage.*)
* — I'm former Army National Guard and was deployed to Katrina, where there was no internet connection for a good while, proof that requiring an internet connection for operational software is a bad idea. Moreover, cloud-based storage presents security problems… as illustrated by the NSA's penetration of various corporations's [cloud] storage networks.
It’s nice to know they do veer of the “young and hip” path. Glad to know they ping you!