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Does Google hire the best people?

• dang 12y ago
  We took that out of the title since it's so baity. All: please let's not argue about that ludicrous title, which I'm sure the author had nothing to do with. At first glance, this piece looks a lot more substantive than the usual posts about hiring. Let's discuss the strongest bits. (Come to think of it, that's the Principle of Charity applied to articles.)
• coldcode 12y ago
  Like everyone they hire the best, the average and the worst in some proportion. No matter how you interview, you really don't know the what their contribution will be until X days after the hire date. And X is often a random value.
• raverbashing 12y ago
  The title really needs a [citation needed] (Since "the best" was removed from the title, this is what it was referring to) Best is really dependent on many factors (And it's pointless to hire "the best people" then set them on boring tasks, which seems to happen a lot at Google)
• erobbins 12y ago
  Not exactly. They hire the people who are best at interviewing at google, and they believe their process correlates the 2 things well. I'm not so sure it does, but I am not in HR/recruiting so I haven't studied the problem.
  • astrocyte 12y ago
    This ^. I'd venture to even suggest that this strict and narrow hiring focus results in many of the short comings of their products. Can't have it all I guess.