Ex-Google employees form virtual tech 'school' for gap-year students amid college closures

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As more university students mull over skipping college this year, a network of Googlers and ex-Googlers are starting a placeholder school where they can explore jobs in tech.

students and parents, who are demanding reduced fees and tuition, while universities struggle to find models that are both safe and equitable to the social college experience.

The Xoogler Network isn't formally affiliated with Google, but the group does speak with staffers at the company regularly about helping start-ups run by former Google employees. Earlier this year, when the pandemic first hit, several ex-Google employeesto offer home-learning resources for families who were suddenly forced to learn from home. The Xoogler School is another example of the passion for education that many Google employees share.

The core group of Xoogler School staffers running this school program can manage 100 students, but they believe they can easily scale by tapping more of its 9,000-plus member network if more students end up signing up. "We hope to be able to help hundreds of students this fall and thousands of students in the future," Fong said.

 

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Ex-google employees are CONSTANTLY running scams where they start a business and then the rankings and the algo magically send them to 1 on every term. Wayfair was such a business. They are middle men making millions doing nothing. RICO

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