Why Google's hiring process is broken
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Why Google's hiring process is broken
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Re: Why Google's hiring process is broken
#2They are self-selecting for a certain type of person and that will likely hurt them in the long-run (may even be hurting them in the short-run).
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#3I need no evidence beyond the fact they didn't hire me when they had the opportunity ;-)
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#4This "Google can't do design" meme is really getting old, imho. At best, this is a story about one recruiter in a giant company not doing his job well in matching the requirements with the skill set of the candidate.
It is easy to conclude preconceived notions.
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#5It doesn't take a designer or user experience expert to note that google products lack consistency and don't interopt with each other very well. I think this stems from larger issues that are much harder to fix, or through 20% projects and acquisitions that were developed independently of a common set of standards. I doubt they are ignoring it.
Perhaps the lack of a "Google standard" enables eager developers to create amazing new products, like Gmail.
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#6I need no evidence beyond the fact they didn't hire me when they had the opportunity ;-)
Please share more about your story!
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#7This "Google can't do design" meme is really getting old, imho. At best, this is a story about one recruiter in a giant company not doing his job well in matching the requirements with the skill set of the candidate. It is easy to conclude preconceived notions.
It's not that, it's that Google's candidate referral or search is really poorly targeted when they contact a candidate. They've talked me twice, about the same job that's really not a good fit for me. They talked to him, and totally missed the designer thing and went straight into CS101.
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#8I've also had a bad recruiting experience with Google, but for very different reasons. Personally, from what I can see (i.e. outside looking in), I think they have major systemic problems in how they do recruiting.
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#9I recently talked to a colleague who was hired as a developer by Google.
He went through 3 rounds of "hiring committees".
3 different committees to make a developer hire is obviously broken. The ability to evaluate culture and skill fit should be possible with a hiring manager and a few prospective peers.
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#10Asked me to rate my skills in a list of 14 programming languages.
Really? I'd love to know what they did with that data. It seems almost completely useless except to say "Tim does not know any Javascript, indicated by his zero score on that."