Google tries new angle on hiring
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#2Of course I love that they're seeking out entrepreneurial talent, but the article doesn't seem to make mention of how they're going to target that in interview questions. Definitely curious...
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#3They've been sending recruiters to me regularly for about six months. I get regular pitches and emails about working for them about twice a month from various people.
I'd like to be able to consider it but I'm not in their candidate pool (around forty, no regular job for a few years, non-tech schooling, travel, no high tech work for years before that).
Must be hard to reach out to the kind of people Google does like to hire. My old friends from that group are always busy.
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#4They've been sending recruiters to me regularly for about six months. I get regular pitches and emails about working for them about twice a month from various people. I'd like to be able to consider it but I'm not in their candidate pool (around forty, no regular job for a few years, non-tech schooling, travel, no high tech work for years before that). Must be hard to reach out to the kind of people Google does like…
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#5Kudos to Google for making this change. Sounds like they're reacting to feedback.
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#6God bless the manhole cover problem. That's been making the rounds for over a decade.
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#7I went through 8 interviews (over the course of 8 months) before I got an offer from Google. By the time Google gave me the offer, I already accepted an offer from the other company. I told the HR of Google that their process sucks (of course, I said it indirectly) and she agreed with me. I'm glad to hear that Google is finally making changes here.
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#8"The new approach includes a new “rule of five” that limits the number of interviews a candidate can attend to no more than that number, said Laszlo Bock, head of human resources. In the past, would-be Googlers were often subjected to 12-14 interviews, he added."
Wow, they actually consider 5 interviews to be a lean approach to interviewing; no wonder their process is convoluted. Methinks Google seriously needs to rethink their org structure.
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#9If I'm perfectly honest, the reason I haven't applied to companies like Google is because their process scares me. I studied at a modest university and achieved a good degree, but the kind of horror stories I hear make me firmly believe that I received a terrible education, because the level of employees they seem to attract (Jon Skeet, anyone?) are a class apart from myself. It didn't help that the university next door, a top ten institution, was regularly visited by the likes of Google.
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#10Too bad they won't ask about manhole covers anymore. I figured that one out on my own a long, long time ago. (free points!)
P.S. If you know why they make them round, then do you know why they don't make them triangular? ;)