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