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This post is really light on the references and methodology, but I'll take it at face value. I think it's great that they've let go of this obsession for Ivies
by coloneltcb 13y ago
This post is really light on the references and methodology, but I'll take it at face value.
I think it's great that they've let go of this obsession for Ivies.
But what they don't even talk about in this post is how the Ivy-only policy poisoned their company culture. To quote a friend from mine from a top startup: "All the assholes at my company come from Google."
- ritchiea 13y agoWell the article didn't exactly say that. It said Google's most innovative employees aren't necessarily the Ivy, perfect SAT score types. At a company as large as Google not everyone is going to be an innovator. There are definitely tedious roles that need to be filled by someone who excels at working within the system. My guess is they learned a better idea of what to hire for given a specific type of need.
- michaelochurch 13y agoTo quote a friend from mine from a top startup: "All the assholes at my company come from Google." My personal experience is that the engineers at Google are really decent, capable people. I miss that crowd, actually. They were pretty solid. It's the rest of the company (including tech management) that's fucked up. When you have a company that believes engineering is for smart people and everything else (people management, product direction) is Dumb People Work, well... who ends up fulfilling those (actually important) duties? Exactly. However, my only gripe with Google engineers is that they tend to be closed-minded about "weird" programming languages like Haskell and Clojure.
- coloneltcb 13y agoYea, to be fair, I think she was referencing mostly middle management and upper management folks, not engineers.