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Norvig said* that their tracking of peoples performance shows that people who would normally be filtered out by their standard tests, but still were hired due t
by sgift 9y ago
Norvig said* that their tracking of peoples performance shows that people who would normally be filtered out by their standard tests, but still were hired due to someone fighting for them do constantly better than those who do well in their interviews. So yes, Google actually doesn't know how to interview.
* As far as I remember it was in Coders at Work (very good book btw)
- myth_drannon 9y agoIt just means that the people who were hired outside the standard process were extremely talented and were worth fighting for. It does mean anything about Google's interview process because it is geared towards an application from your average Joe from the street.