Woman, who was told she'll never make it to Google by startup interviewer, lands job at tech giant. Her post

An Indian woman’s account of a past interview experience has gone viral after she shared how she was once mocked by a startup interviewer who claimed she would never make it to global tech giants like Google or Meta. The post, which appeared on social media platform X, has garnered widespread support and applause for its striking reversal.

The user, who goes by the name Arpita, recounted a difficult system design round at a mid-level startup where she was asked to tackle an exhaustive range of technical tasks.

“Was grilled by a mid-level startup interviewer in a system design round, he made me design infra, estimate CPU costs, basically everything except physically build the data centre,” she wrote in her post.

However, the interview reportedly took a sharp turn into condescension when she struggled to answer a few of the questions. According to her, the interviewer smirked and said, “This is why people like you won’t make it to big companies like Google, Meta.”

Arpita, who did not identify the company or the interviewer by name, revealed in a mic-drop conclusion that she eventually did get into Google.