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

Post by sunnyps » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 3:56 AM UTC

Post by VikingCoder » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 4:04 AM UTC

andrewstuart wrote: post #35

fogleman wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"…

Post by calcsam » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 4:11 AM UTC

Post by gaur » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 4:16 AM UTC

Pyxl101 wrote: post #28

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…

FYI, the article is satire. Not reading it will miss the point :-)

Post by cjmcqueen » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 4:19 AM UTC