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Many people interviewing there are already among the most highly paid people in the world (lots of them are just moving around within that group) so that argume
by lazyasciiart 8y ago
Many people interviewing there are already among the most highly paid people in the world (lots of them are just moving around within that group) so that argument is pretty irrelevant.
- izacus 8y agoMany (as in 10-30% at best) perhaps. Not even close to half or majority though, so I fail to understand how the argument could be irrelevant.
- lazyasciiart 8y agoAt the beginning of 2017, ~12,000 of Google's current ~72,000 employees had previously worked at other big tech companies, and most of them were probably in their R+D headcount of only 27,000. I wouldn't be at all surprised if half of their engineering interviewees came from similar paying jobs, and a the majority of the remainder were college hires. https://www.alphr.com/business/1005261/silicon-valley-swiping-where-is-the-tech-industry-s-loyalty https://www.alphr.com/business/1005261/silicon-valley-swipin... https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-time-google-employees/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti... https://www.statista.com/statistics/219333/number-of-google-employees-by-department/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/219333/number-of-google-...
- southerndrift 8y agoI assume Google is looking for people who absolutely want to work at Google. Making the process cumbersome allows them to get candidates who stay at the company even if they have to do work that they don't like.
- lazyasciiart 8y agoIf that's what they're aiming for, evidence suggests that it isn't working - https://hackerlife.co/blog/san-francisco-large-corporation-employee-tenure https://hackerlife.co/blog/san-francisco-large-corporation-e...