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I always wonder how Google manages to hire. I have a good friend there, but it was only because another role fell through that she ended up at Google; had the o
by lostcolony 10y ago
I always wonder how Google manages to hire. I have a good friend there, but it was only because another role fell through that she ended up at Google; had the other company's HR department decided it was okay for a husband and wife to be working in the same department (different teams), she'd have gone there first.
For myself, Google's recruitment process was pretty laughable. I applied once in college for an internship, which was never responded to (fair enough), then had a recruiter reference it three years later when I was actually looking for another job, which I followed up on, but then had them drop off the radar (as seems pretty common) for a month, as I took a job elsewhere, and then later recruiters doing the same thing, referencing the time I applied 5-7 years earlier as 'expressing interest'. No, not interested.
It's just as well their interviews are geared for college students, because that seems to be the only type who would actually tolerate their hiring process (well, that and the type who doesn't actually need an interview, the famous 'oh, you have literally written the book on X, come work on X here' sort)
- throw_away_777 10y agoWhen you have a reputation for great culture and good pay, and are one of the best known tech companies, you get enough applicants that you can use pretty much whatever hiring process you want.
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- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoPerhaps, but this thread (and a thousand like it) don't exactly back up the "great culture" argument.
- kyrra 10y agoMost of the complaints in this thread are from people that had a bad experience interviewing with Google. There are very few people talking here that are Google employees that were through the process and/or had a positive experience. Google rejects far more people than it hires. So there are going to be way more voices on the rejected side of the discussion. Bad hiring experiences suck and I know it's something many of the interviewers at Google try to avoid. But sometimes it happens, especially when you get the number of applicants that Google gets.
- rockdoe 10y agoGoogle is willing to headhunt key employees and put enough dough on the table to overcome the downsides.
- raverbashing 10y agoYes, there exists a backdoor for VIP hiring
- ska 10y agoThat makes them just like - essentially every company ever. If someone with enough clout wants a hire to happen, red tape magically dissappears
- gambiting 10y ago" (well, that and the type who doesn't actually need an interview, the famous 'oh, you have literally written the book on X, come work on X here' sort)" Well, they have a reputation for absolutely disregarding whether you are famous or not: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
- hga 10y agoOh, it was a bit more than that per his claim, "90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew)"....
- vanni 10y agoEven if you are in: "Ken Thompson must take the mandatory C language test to check-in code." [2010] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our_test/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_ou...
- wyclif 10y agoThat is the classic recent example of the phenomenon, right there. Seriously, if you don't usually read Twitter threads and you're interested at all in this HN story, you owe it to yourself to read that one.