Is YouTube exempt from Google's lengthy indirect hiring processes?
Probably not. But when the CEO knows someone who he wants to hire, the rules can be bent. Remember, a lot of people working at Google got there via acquisitions. And they are afforded all the rights of "normal" employees that had 10 weeks of interviews (including moving to a "normal" team). I assume Google's official hiring process is mostly for recent college grads, because they don't have any experience (or code) t…
Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer
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Acquisition employees still have to go through a round of intense interviews in order to continue through the acquisition
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#32"want a job?" means "want to interview for a job?"
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#33I'm sure this guy has no problem finding a job at any company he wants probably doing anything he wants. I don't understand why this is such a big deal.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
He made it in a day.
And I’m sure they'll give him time to work it out further, but is this the innovation YouTube is looking for? Hard to believe their UX people and dev teams haven’t already toyed with something like this.
I get the feeling you're just bitter they didn't hire you instead.
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#35Kudos to Feross! An inspiring story.
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#36That is a great story!
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#38Is YouTube exempt from Google's lengthy indirect hiring processes?
someone from youtube recently reached out to me about some stuff and as an aside commented that i'd also probably make a good google employee. but my college GPA (2.8 or so) pretty much rules out that possibility. too bad.
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#39Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."
Which means that the YouTube CEO is scouring Hacker News.
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#40Very cool. Didn't think it be such as big deal, since others have already played around with the official Youtube player and API. For example: http://www.yvoschaap.com/youtube/, http://www.flatvid.com.