Not saying that it is an easy place to get in to - the bar is high, but if you are good enough to get in it is fairly chilled.
FWIW I interview a lot of candidates and there is quite a broad range of ages from college grads up to and including folks older than me. The hiring process is flawed in many ways, but they do seem to go out of their way to be fair and equitable regarding age race gender etc. It is no longer "culture fit" examined during interview for example, but now "culture add"
Well that’s nice - weirdly I got an interview there in 2012 (the stock sure would’ve been nice…) but did badly, perhaps because I was all of 1 year in to my career and had been a self taught physics major. Since then I’ve applied many times and gotten nothing but crickets. Oh well.
The 2012 experience was really good though, for what it’s worth.
FWIW I interview a lot of candidates and there is quite a broad range of ages from college grads up to and including folks older than me. The hiring process is flawed in many ways, but they do seem to go out of their way to be fair and equitable regarding age race gender etc. It is no longer "culture fit" examined during interview for example, but now "culture add"