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Of course she is going to get internal flak: she's basically saying the current management is incompetent and needs to raise the bar because she can't continue
by jtchang 14y ago
Of course she is going to get internal flak: she's basically saying the current management is incompetent and needs to raise the bar because she can't continue to blindly trust the hiring decisions that are being made on a day to day basis.
Brutal but how else will you separate the wheat from the chaff?
- colmvp 14y agoBy looking at their code? Testing? Hiring based on their university instead of their chops is pretty narrow minded. I would be livid if I found a great candidate but was refused the approval to hire them just because they didn't graduate from MIT or Stanford.
- rhizome 14y agoThe YHOO investors whose interests lie along those of the top-20 universities can be placated with a policy like this.
- arindone 14y agoTo be fair Google has had a similar unofficial policy for ages and it has worked well for them =) (Not supporting it either way...a bit undecided myself)
- protomyth 14y agoYahoo is not an algorithm company
- RyanZAG 14y agoHas it though, really? Google's company-defining products are (in my opinion): Search - not relevant to hiring practices, Search came before the company Gmail - initial version made by Paul Buchheit - Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Adsense - created by Oingo and acquired by Google Android - created by Danger and acquired by Google (Andy Rubin - Utica College, Utica, New York) Chrome - basically Webkit, created by KHTML project and Apple As far as I can tell, the breakthroughs Google has had are completely unrelated to any Ivy League hiring practices.
- rdouble 14y agoIn addition to having a few key products, a company also needs hordes of smart, hardworking and reliable people to keep things running and add incremental improvements. Top grades from a good university is a pretty good filter for "smart, hardworking and reliable."
- arindone 14y agoAgreed -- it's a good filter for a higher probability of better talent (note: I say "probability" and not "guarantee") and their stock price and potential for growth speak for their human resources strategy.