Google Respins Its Hiring Process For World Class Employees 305
An anonymous reader writes "Maybe you've been intrigued about working at Google (video), but unfortunately you slept through some of those economics classes way back in college. And you wouldn't know how to begin figuring out how many fish there are in the Great Lakes. Relax; Google has decided that GPAs and test scores are pretty much useless for evaluating candidates, except (as a weak indicator) for fresh college graduates. And they've apparently retired brain teasers as an interview screening device (though that's up for debate). SVP Laszlo Beck admitted to the New York Times that an internal evaluation of the effectiveness of its interview process produced sobering results: 'We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship. It's a complete random mess.' This sounds similar to criticism of Google's hiring process occasionally levied by outsiders. Beck says Google also isn't convinced of the efficacy of big data in judging the merits of employees either for individual contributor or leadership roles, although they haven't given up on it either."
This has led TechCrunch to declare that the technical interview will soon be dead.
Re:GPAs and test scores in schools should be chang (Score:5, Funny)
also get rid of testes the people who are good at test cramming can master.
I truly hope you did not mean what you wrote.
Re:Hiring HR people (Score:5, Funny)
Catch 22: they need to find a good way to hire HR people who are good at hiring.
Re:Only 1 sensible answer to interview brainteaser (Score:5, Funny)
For Google interviews the answer to "run of the mill" brain teasers should be "Hang on while I Google it" ;).
And if they say no, ask them if it's better to use Bing instead.
Re:In conclusion (Score:3, Funny)
Re:GPAs and test scores in schools should be chang (Score:4, Funny)
"outstanding scientists with world class credentials"
you are