Which eventually leads to this article from 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html https://www.nytime

Which eventually leads to this article from 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-h... Which refers to this interview from 2013: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-... In that interview, Laszlo Bock of Google says: "What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college." The title strongly suggests that ditching degree requirements is a new development for Google, but in reality if it ever was a requirement, it wasn't true over 5 years ago. (5 years plus whatever "over time" means.)