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Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People

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Re: Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People

#34

Post by fogleman »

paxunix wrote: post #27

I didn't even read the article because I know there is no secret. We don't hire the best people. We hire average people, some good people, some great people, some mediocre people, and some people who aren't very good at their jobs. Some of those mediocre and average people turn out to be great people after all. There's no secret to it. We like telling ourselves there is a secret because everyone likes to feel special…

Incredible to me that someone would write such a lengthy comment based on a headline alone.

Re: Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People

#35

Post by andrewstuart »

fogleman wrote: post #34
paxunix wrote: post #27

I didn't even read the article because I know there is no secret. We don't hire the best people. We hire average people, some good people, some great people, some mediocre people, and some people who aren't very good at their jobs. Some of those mediocre and average people turn out to be great people after all. There's no secret to it. We like telling ourselves there is a secret because everyone likes to feel special…

Incredible to me that someone would write such a lengthy comment based on a headline alone.

It's because so many posts on HN are cookie cutter - usually you don't need to read the post to know what the (same old) message is.

You know:

"Why my startup failed" (cause I built something no-one wants)

"Why we switched from this technology to that technology" (because the old one sucked but the new one will solve all our problems)

"How we built a startup that fixed hiring" (they didn't)

"How to hire great people" (no-one knows)

"Why we were rejected from YC" (can an idea be that bad?)

"Our experience of interviewing at YC" (we were scared, it didn't take long, we got accepted!)

etc etc

Re: Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People

#36

Post by probinso »

fogleman wrote: post #34
paxunix wrote: post #27

I didn't even read the article because I know there is no secret. We don't hire the best people. We hire average people, some good people, some great people, some mediocre people, and some people who aren't very good at their jobs. Some of those mediocre and average people turn out to be great people after all. There's no secret to it. We like telling ourselves there is a secret because everyone likes to feel special…

Incredible to me that someone would write such a lengthy comment based on a headline alone.

Good hires don't need to read the whole article

Re: Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People

#39

Post by yeukhon »

I see 502. I guess I am entitled to the secret sauce because I am trying to get into FB lol.

Anyway, here is the cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:61DmBRy...

Basically, this interview process allows you to weed out candidates who

1) disapprove open floor plan work environment, sitting next than six feet away from co-worker (yeah let's cramp twenty people together around so we can hear each other yelling at the headphone)

2) markers are either missing or used up and no one replaces them. oh you want to project your screen? good luck find a working remote or HDMI cable.

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