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Their findings wrt. formal education are interesting, too. The first time I see a big company's representative saying “test scores are worthless.”
Actually they say they're giving less weight to them (historically Google has weighted them very heavily) which is significantly different from "test scores are worthless".
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I quote my friend who works in "Big Data": "sometimes I think Big Data is just Excel on 128GB of RAM"
Not to go all senselessly pedantic, but doesn't Excel have a limit of like 55,000 rows?
When trying to work out what best predicts job performance, the quality of your data is by far the most important thing to focus on. I would very much like to know more about the details of their internal studies. There are a lot of difficult problems in trying to use statistics to improve interview processes. One of the big problems is that you will always have a truncated sample of only those people who were selected: you would then expect the importance of certain variables, such as GPA or test scores, to be lowered because those who scored lower on such metrics will have had compensating characteristics...
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It's standard (or slightly pretentious) British English; I guess the US equivalent would be "majored in math at Edinburgh" (which would be equally incomprehensible to a Brit)
It's not really pretentious – it kinda depends on what university you went to. I typically say 'studied', but my friends who went to other unis say 'read'. I would take 'read' as a pretentious term.
> I would take 'read' as a pretentious term.
I'm confused...
The original article - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-huntin... Distraction free reading and without all the annoying cruft of Quartz. Fascinating use of "Big Data" to cut through the bullshit. Wonder if it will change anything. I suspect the "tough" interview plays well into a company's PR.
I realize that reporters like to throw buzzwords into anything to cater to the "simpler" readers. But come one, this is outright silly.
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I quote my friend who works in "Big Data": "sometimes I think Big Data is just Excel on 128GB of RAM"
Not to go all senselessly pedantic, but doesn't Excel have a limit of like 55,000 rows?
The best book on hiring, no doubt, is Who: http://www.amazon.com/Who-The-A-Method-Hiring/dp/0345504194 We used it to build our hiring process for http://www.thinkful.com/ and it consistently proves valuable. We also use it to help our students prepare for job interviews.
Have you gathered much data on the success of this book's approach in your firm? I'd love to hear a positive take on it.
And these things are important, because job candidates are not people, they are OEM replacement parts being order from Pep Boys. Call up the recruiter and requisition a J6-252: Programmer, seasoned 5 years, with degree from MIT. Oh, those ones are too expensive. Guess I'll take the knock-off version, but I refuse to pay full price!
Hopefully, because it's Google saying it, everyone will cargo-cult on this bandwagon too.