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I believe that has changed. Q. Other insights from the data you’ve gathered about Google employees? A. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunchin
by theGimp 11y ago
I believe that has changed.
Q. Other insights from the data you’ve gathered about Google employees?
A. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...
Also, I doubt that external industry experience means little to Google -- for two reasons:
1. Good engineering practices are good engineering practices. You can pick those up by working at a good firm
2. Though they hold God-like stature, Google is like any other company. They mostly use the same technology and a lot of the same tools as everybody else.
- cmrdporcupine 11y agoI'm pretty sure that our local hiring committee at my site definitely considers your level of degree and what school. I don't know anybody else in my office without a degree. A very high % have masters or phds.
- komali2 11y agoThat's probably a different sort of correlation than a Google-caused one.
- cmrdporcupine 11y ago"Btw, 2. Though they hold God-like stature, Google is like any other company. They mostly use the same technology and a lot of the same tools as everybody else." As a Google employee, no, not true. Yes, we use the same _languages_ and compilers and editors... but beyond that most everything else is unique to Google. Build tools, libraries, deployment environment, web servers, databases, it's all unique to Google.
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- wavefunction 11y ago>G.P.A.'s Ugh, a degree might be a good thing, some things considered... I have to hope this was a phone interview, but even so, where is the author and editor and proofer? (I am degreeless)
- burkaman 11y agohttp://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/faqs-on-style/ http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/faqs-on-st... "A number of readers have complained after seeing plural abbreviations like M.D.’s and M.R.I.’s in The Times. They say the apostrophe is wrong — that it indicates a possessive and should not be used in a plural like this. In fact, style rules at The Times (and some other publications, including the Chicago Manual of Style) do call for using an apostrophe in the plural of abbreviations that include periods. The idea is that a combination of uppercase letters, periods and a lowercase “s” is confusing at first glance, and that the apostrophe helps a reader see that the “s” has been added to make a plural." You might say that it should be GPA instead of G.P.A., but at least you can see that it was proofread.
- msh 11y agoHaving a good GPA and having a degree is not the same thing.