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I find it ironic that Google’s search results have been gamed to the point that they’re about as useless as their competitors were 20 years ago but companies ar

I find it ironic that Google’s search results have been gamed to the point that they’re about as useless as their competitors were 20 years ago but companies are still cargo cult copying a hiring process that has also been gamed to the point of uselessness. At this point the whiteboard gauntlet seems more indicative of a lack of critical self evaluation than anything, “we only hire the best because we’re the best rah rah”. Miss me with that shit.

red-iron-pine 4y ago
There is an implication with this post that Google is dumb or unskilled, or stuck in a cargo cult, but that ain't the truth. Google's search results aren't because they suck, they're doing it to get maximum money. This is about getting maximum cash for minimum overhead. The Goog is a publicly traded company, they're about selling you the crappiest product at the highest margin. Until someone can come and seriously eat their lunch in search, it will never get better. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, "en-shit-ification" is explicitly the point. They hired the best and the brightest not to make search better, but to find ways to optimally increase the stock price; good products are entirely tangential to that.
- george574 4y ago
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