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Why would Google hire "poor performers" in the first place? Google, in part, built credibility with its talent because it's hiring process selected for excepti
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
Why would Google hire "poor performers" in the first place?
Google, in part, built credibility with its talent because it's hiring process selected for exceptional talent and Googlers levereaged this into basically a passport to work anywhere. Google is shooting itself in the foot by framing it this way in the sense that it destroys the illusion that they have better hiring practices has the cost of not attracting the exceptional candidates they once could.
- Solko 4y agoBecause it's an excuse to fire people, what else? Also the company is producing bad products and nothing innovative at all. They just try to copy and fail, look at Stadia and others. Without count Angular and everything around it.
- Ferrotin 4y agoIt should be obvious that many people who pass an interview, by intelligence or hard practice, will slack off on the job.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoRight, and what Google is signaling is that they aren't actually very good at detecting this during the hiring process.
- throwaway71271 4y agoin any group of people, half are below average, by definition. they might still be in the 95th quantile in the rest of the world, and be in the bottom 6% in google.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoI'm glad you brought this up. Stack ranking is known to decimate morale. Microsoft was notorious for this.
- conscion 4y agoThe biggest problem with these stack rankings is that the variation isn't evenly distributed. Across the entirety of Google engineering half are below average, but they might all be in single division/group/team and you may be destroying extremely productive teams by forcing them to cut bottom performers.