u/eight_seven wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I didn’t see Code Platoon on your list. Out of curiosity why not? I was looking into them since I am a vet if I never hear back from my Google apprenticeship application.
u/michaelnovati replied ·
The Google Apprenticeship program is a very different thing from "Early Career".
The apprenticeship program involves a lot of training, is paid much lower (roughly half), and is for people very early on in their journey.
The "Early Career" program is more for people who are formerly at the CS grad level and now at that level but including bootcamp grads at that level. You're interviewing for the L3 bar ([https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google&track=Software%20Engineer](https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google&track=Software%20Engineer)). It's a rebranding of "New Grad" or "University Recruiting" that has happened industry-wide over the past few years because of a law that passed in California.
Again (someone correct me if I'm wrong PLEASE!)