My point wasn't necessarily that you can't get hired at Google, but that it's fairly well-documented that Google during the first decade or so of its existence

My point wasn't necessarily that you can't get hired at Google, but that it's fairly well-documented that Google during the first decade or so of its existence explicitly favored candidates from elite school. That culture isn't something you just change overnight. I put no judgement in that fact, just that it's unlikely to produce relativly more diversity, non-conformity or original thinking compared to other hiring methodologies. Edit: From Eric Schmidt himself: > A few of the rules we had were: we didn’t want to hire your friends, we didn’t want to hire people from “lesser universities,” we only wanted to hire people with very high GPA’s. The constant problem was somebody was a good employee, had someone they had worked with, who was very loyal, but not from a great university, did not have a high GPA. We would not hire these people. It was controversial. We relaxed it a bit now, but the fact of the matter is it got us to the point of where we are today. They got us these intelligent generalists from top Universities. https://medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-class-collection/class-8-notes-essay-reid-hoffman-john-lilly-chris-yeh-and-allen-blue-s-cs183c-technology-84ebbbaf6fa7 https://medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-class-collection/clas... and Marissa Mayer: > "Even though the actress Gwyneth Paltrow had created a best-selling cookbook and popular lifestyle blog, Mayer, who habitually asked deputies where they attended college, balked at hiring her as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food. According to one executive, Mayer disapproved of the fact that Paltrow did not graduate college." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?ref=magazine&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...