Comment by plg

11 years ago

just playing devil's advocate, but how do we know the reason for the no-hire was the reason the OP thinks it was?

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hebdo  11 years ago

It seems that almost everyone here knows better than Google how to hire employees for Google. Given that you can see why it is trivial to see through hours-long hiring committee decisions in just two seconds.

Edit: as pointed out by others, the hiring decision probably does not take a few hours, but under an hour. Still, the point is valid.

  • nilkn  11 years ago

    I'm pretty sure the hiring committees do not actually deliberate for hours on one candidate. Maybe in very rare cases.

    • DannyBee  11 years ago

      The most i've deliberated was 45-50 minutes on a single candidate in HC itself. (often hours are spent reading packets and preparing notes before HC)

      It's not because candidates aren't worth it, it's that if you can't come to consensus in that time period, you are unlikely to be able to :)

DannyBee  11 years ago

Don't be silly. As hedbo says, it's obvious google just doesn't know what they are doing.

  • tptacek  11 years ago

    If their goal is hiring from industry, as opposed to from schools, I think I could credibly defend an argument that they don't.

    (I think what they do now makes sense if they want the top of their funnel to be comprised mostly of recent CS grads, and I think that industry people with really high profiles, or that internal people really want, get to skip a lot of this evaluation.)

    I have a lot of respect for Google (how could you not). That doesn't mean they can't be a bit clownshoes with recruiting.

    • DannyBee  11 years ago

      "If their goal is hiring from industry, as opposed to from schools, I think I could credibly defend an argument that they don't. "

      I would agree ... if they were actually having trouble hiring from industry.

      IE despite everything everyone ever writes here, google simply isn't having trouble attracting enough of the right people that they want to hire (despite arguments to the contrary that they aren't hiring the right people or whatever).

      So i can't see an argument that they do it wrong as long as it's actually working.

      I expect, if it's truly broken, at some point they will, but

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