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Calculating a pension and building a billing system is rather basic CRUD work compared to scaling software to handle millions of concurrent users. Google's hiring bar is relatively high compared to any government position in terms of quantitative skills you'd need to demonstrate.


Last year there where 279 changes to the federal tax code.

That system handles hundreds of millions of people and trillions of dollars.

Calling it "rather basic CRUD work" is incredibly myopic and/or arrogant.


Quite Google can take a relaxed view about things eg getting geoloaction wrong 1 time in thousand on a query.

Calculate 1 in a 1000 tax returns or bank statements wrong and some one will want blood.




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