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I like Friedman's summary. If it is accurate, Google has a pretty forward-looking hiring philosophy; definitely better than the view espoused by Marissa Mayer
by allochthon 13y ago
I like Friedman's summary. If it is accurate, Google has a pretty forward-looking hiring philosophy; definitely better than the view espoused by Marissa Mayer sometime back about only hiring good students (or something along these lines). Working there sounds like it could be quite nice. It's too bad about the stacked ranking, which is a huge liability for a company in my view.
- skj 13y agoUnlike some stack ranking horror stories I've heard, at Google the engineers are stack-ranked against everyone else at the same tech level. That's thousands of people. If you're in the bottom 10% of thousands of people, then "needs improvement" is probably a pretty accurate assessment. To be let go you have to do quite poorly, by the way. Once you get in the door it would be possible to coast, assuming you did have some productivity. You just won't get the fun stuff.
- rictic 13y agoIf it's any consolation, the stack ranking is done with the institutional knowledge that performance isn't evenly distributed between teams – i.e. some teams will have zero people who are underperforming. (in fact, this has been the typical experience for me in my three years at Google at least; most of the time everyone on the team is doing well both from a performance perspective and a career development perspective).