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I've read that some of the FAANGs hire a certain percentage of people who don't qualify normally. This helps them calibrate their screening criteria.
by JJMcJ 3y ago
I've read that some of the FAANGs hire a certain percentage of people who don't qualify normally. This helps them calibrate their screening criteria.
- maerF0x0 3y agoWould these hires be folks which have an expected outcome of termination?
- lesuorac 3y agoIIUC, the parent is probably saying this because of Lazlo Block's book. Besides hiring people to intentionally fire (lowest person in a stack rank) this practice was stopped for that reason.
- VirusNewbie 3y agoI have not heard that, but they routinely downlevel people, which is probably a good enough proxy. If you assume some percentage of the people who applied at say, L6 take an L4 offer, then you watch and see if they progress faster than people who interview for L4 and do fantastic, etc. I do believe there was a study at google that found people who were on the 'border', but had at least one interviewer rate them very high, did better than people who just did very well across the board.