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"There’s something at Google for everyone" ...except for the 99% of applicants they reject.
by dadkins 16y ago
"There’s something at Google for everyone"
...except for the 99% of applicants they reject.
- cryptoz 16y agoI think they reject a higher percentage than 99%. It's probably closer to 99.9%, or even 99.95%. They get something like 1,000,000 applications per year. It's crazy.
- silverlake 16y agoA Google recruiter told me their acceptance rate is lower than Harvard. I was rejected by both.
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- zhyder 16y agoI don't know why they say that: it's not impressive at all. Harvard has an application fee, Google doesn't. Anybody and everybody just submits a resume coz "it doesn't hurt". GP: if they get 1,000,000 applications and 4500 people join: that's a 99.5% rejection rate even if you assume no one turns down the offer.
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- bjg 16y agoI just got an interview request last friday from google, I am scared shitless about the interview process as a graduating senior.
- fedd 16y agoreject it with no explanation!!! :)
- brown9-2 16y agoAs someone who didn't make the cut, seeing blog posts like this or job postings from them pop up on my RSS reader really stings.
- ardit33 16y agonah, think of yourself as a 'false negative'. Their loss.
- matwood 16y agoUse the rejection as motivation. Go build something that Google will want and have them buy you out. You get to become an employee and they end up paying you way more for the privilege of hiring you. I look at a place like Google the same way I looked at grad school. A place to go where you can hopefully meet a co-founder :)
- apike 16y agoEven better: go build something that Google will want, then reject their buyout offer and build a profitable company. Best revenge ever.
- bane 16y agoAnd then grow to be bigger than Google, buy Google, then fire the people who rejected you.
- hugh3 16y agoAnd then achieve enlightenment and overcome petty grievances, hire back the people who rejected you, and have a big ol' group hug with them.
- pig 16y agoDon't make a $200 Billion mistake http://www.cnbc.com/id/39710609/Warren_Buffett_Buying_Berkshire_Hathaway_Was_200_Billion_Blunder http://www.cnbc.com/id/39710609/Warren_Buffett_Buying_Berksh...
- cdibona 16y agoWhenever you hear a number like 99% of applicants are rejected or 1000 resumes a day are rejected, you should understand what's going on. Google gets resumes and random text from 1000s of people a day looking for a job, all over the world, completely bereft of any sort of qualification. That's the vast majority of resumes any large business like Google will see. It's like Spam writ large. So we have resume screeners who look at those random resumes and try to separate wheat from chaff. For some, we have a phone screen that is literally to check the most basic of facts to see if the resume is at all consistent with the name at the top, then a real phone screen with an engineer, then an onsite, then offer. Each step loses people, but the first, separating the clear bs from the real is where the huge gap comes from. That said, I hope we have more false negatives than false positives every step of the way, and for that, all I can say is that I wish it didn't have to be that way. Well, that, and this: Get referred by a Googler, skip many of the above steps :-)