Comment by sgerenser
8 days ago
What about working as a SWE at Google? Apparently they recently implemented a personality test as an initial screener (they call it a Googleyness test).
8 days ago
What about working as a SWE at Google? Apparently they recently implemented a personality test as an initial screener (they call it a Googleyness test).
It doesn’t necessarily need to be beneficial for the company.
Game theoretically there’s an advantage as an employee of a successful company to artificially reduce the number of people who can be employed to raise your own relative value to the company. If Google can only select from left handed employees suddenly they need to pay higher wages and existing employees are facing less competition as new employees are selected from a smaller applicant pool and thus worse.
Probably not the actual answer, but it’s worth considering such indirect motivations.
That's called wrong-think.
If one were to do that, you would be imposing costs to the point where demand drops to 0, and supply in the near term would follow that to 0.
From there you have a short march to economic collapse.
Management and workers extracting more money from companies isn’t a new thing, that’s the point of unions for example which didn’t collapse the economy.
Various interests try to get other people to behave in specific ways, but what actually happens isn’t necessarily as clean as often described.
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Google is screening for compliant, fungible engineers. Especially those swayed by the need to be told they’re the best of the best. Tests like that make sense in an ugly sort of way.
Googlers told me that appearing obsessed with climbing the career ladder is an expectation of SWEs, though not a strict requirement. Being a good liar seems like a huge plus.