{"id":30277,"date":"2025-07-29T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30277\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:36:12","slug":"bengaluru-techie-was-mocked-by-interviewer-people-like-you-wont-make-it-to-google-her-clapback-has-the-internets-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30277\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru techie was mocked by interviewer: &#8216;People like you won\u2019t make it to Google.&#8217; Her clapback has the internet\u2019s attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru-based techie\u2019s job interview experience is striking a chord across the internet \u2014 and not just because of where she ended up. Arpita Das, a Software Engineer currently working at Google, took to X to share a bitter but ultimately satisfying story from her job hunt. In her post, she recalled being grilled by an interviewer from a mid-level startup during a system design round. He pushed her to estimate everything from CPU costs to infrastructure planning \u2014 practically everything except, as she joked, physically building the data centre.<\/p>\n<p>But what really stuck with her was what happened when she stumbled. According to Arpita, the interviewer smirked and said, \u201cThis is why people like you won\u2019t make it to big companies like Google or Meta.\u201d That sting didn\u2019t last long, though \u2014 today, she works at Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arpitaaa01 (@Arpitaaa01) <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Magazines#href\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arpitaaa01\/status\/1949325445901455822\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\u201cI\u2019m not bragging,\u201d she wrote. \u201cJust wondering why some folks gatekeep based on their own insecurities.\u201d The post quickly gained traction, with people rallying behind her. One user cheekily asked where the interviewer works now. Arpita\u2019s reply? He\u2019s still at the same company.<br \/>Internet reactsOthers jumped in to share similar experiences and show support for Arpita. One user called her journey the best form of revenge, encouraging her to keep going strong. Another pointed out that when they conduct interviews, they focus on what they can learn from the other person, rather than trying to break them down. One particularly striking response came from someone who had also faced gender bias in the hiring process. She shared how a former interviewer doubted her ability to handle onsite work simply because she was a woman. Ironically, that interviewer was fired within a year and a half, while she went on to perform not just her own responsibilities, but his as well \u2014 and did a better job at it.<\/p>\n<p>Arpita\u2019s story isn\u2019t just a personal win \u2014 it\u2019s a reminder of how far kindness and humility can go in an industry where gatekeeping and egos still often get in the way.<\/p>\n<p>As per her X bio and LinkedIn, she is a graduate from VIT, with a B.Tech in Computer Science. She joined Google just a couple of weeks back and shared a note on LinkedIn. Arpita Das shared that she has joined Google as an SDE II, where she\u2019s working on Gemini at Google DeepMind. She called it an incredible opportunity and is excited to be part of a team pushing the boundaries of AI, she said she\u2019s grateful to be learning from some of the best minds in the field.<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bengaluru-based techie\u2019s job interview experience is striking a chord across the internet \u2014 and not just because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[28696,64,63,28695,237,28697,28699,105,28698],"class_list":{"0":"post-30277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-arpita-das-google-career","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-bengaluru-techie-job-interview-experience","12":"tag-internet","13":"tag-job-interview-sexism","14":"tag-tech-industry-gatekeeping","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-workplace-gender-bias-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}