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Google manages not to hire someone who didn't want to work there in the first place. Sounds like the process is working just fine to me. In all seriousness, t
by ziadbc 15y ago
Google manages not to hire someone who didn't want to work there in the first place. Sounds like the process is working just fine to me.
In all seriousness, there may be some issues with their hiring process, but I think the Google hiring practices would best be analyzed by using the aggregated data, rather than the trickle of anecdotes we tend to hear about in public. Even if Google got their hiring right 99.9 percent of the time, there would be hundreds of people, if not thousands, who were perfect for the job, and still didn't get hired.
- javert 15y agoExcept that the anecdotes that are being heard suggest that their HR practices are broken, through and through, rather than fitting the pattern you described. For example, people just being dropped from contact with Google for no given reason (not as in, "We don't want you," but as in... they just never heard from them again).
- shin_lao 15y agoIf she doesn't call back, it means she's not interested...
- lupino3 15y agoIt depends on how you define "hire right". They can make two types of errors (as any binary classifier ;) ), false positives - wrong hires - and false negatives - wrong rejections. They tend to err on the false negative side.
- bugmenot 15y agoYeah. In my experience they have an exceptionally low false positive rate. That's what makes it so much easier for me to think that they could apply their (exceptional) brains to lowering the (seemingly) high false negative rate.