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Ask HN: Does Google hire non-programmers?
I've seen a lot of articles about google's hiring practices and the type of interview they take. It seems that they always hire programmers.
Do they hire non-coders like managers or financial analysts? What's it like to work at Google for these non-coders?
- ScottWhigham 17y agoI have a friend who was a Windows 2000/2003 sysadmin who, after a career of consulting and training in that enviro, went to get his MBA. They hired him straight out of the MBA program and he is now the manager of a training team there.
- ashraful 17y agoBut he still had a background in tech (being a sysadmin). Anyone knows of someone without a tech background getting into Google?
- allenbrunson 17y agohttp://xooglers.blogspot.com/ http://xooglers.blogspot.com/ one of the primary authors of this blog was a google marketer for several years. if you read the earliest parts of the archives, he goes into the interview process they put him through in great detail. summary: it was every bit as rigorous as the programming interviews, but focused on marketing topics.
- ashraful 17y agothanks. thats what i was looking for.
- hack_edu 17y agoFrom my experience, they hire non-programmers en-masse yet have their Infamous Interviews for engineers. Think how big they are. They need a lot of middle management types and general errand boys to keep even just their physical spaces up and running. Lots of folks start as support or writing contractors and work their way into open positions that way.