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Tell HN: Google's hiring process is broken on purpose. I figured out why.
Google's hiring process is broken on purpose because it's an elaborate brain puzzle. If you want a job at Google, and you can somehow figure out how to get inside the Googleplex and/or work your way through the hiring obstacle course, then by that rationale alone you must obviously be smart enough to work there.
- bartonfink 15y agoGoogle's hiring process is broken because they can afford for it to be broken. There's no puzzle, and in fact the system contains a relatively large amount of luck (e.g. Yegge's Interviewer Anti-Loop phenomenon) which they try compensate for by encouraging repeat applications. There are almost certainly people "smart enough" to work at Google who do not. That's just a fact of life that Google seems to accept because, from their perspective, they're getting enough "smart enough" people already.