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I think google did a good job of this in the early days. They got the word out on the street that their interviews were notoriously difficult. That probably di
by psadri 9y ago
I think google did a good job of this in the early days. They got the word out on the street that their interviews were notoriously difficult. That probably dissuaded a lot of the random applicants.
I also read somewhere that some big bank (Goldman) just has a very circuitous, lengthy application process and the main point of it is to weed out the spray and pray applicants.
- oculusthrift 9y agoi’m pretty certain google is the most applied to company in the world so not sure if that holds up
- tzakrajs 9y agoIt helps to keep the illusion of exclusivity the more people you turn away.
- nostrademons 9y agoI think that really started around 2005 when they made a concerted effort to ramp up college hiring (and by extension, started advertising among the general public). I knew someone who worked there in 2002. (Well, now having worked there, I know lots of people who worked there in 2002, but in 2002 I knew someone who worked there.) At the time, they were a small startup with a reputation for hiring only the best, the way you might think of Medallion or D.E Shaw now. There wasn't a perception that you could just walk in off the street and get a job like in The Internship movie.