Re:Enough with the Programming Puzzles
by ZeroGravitas on Monday June 06, 2016 @05:49AM
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The common response to various claims that Google make based on their HR data is: "But they only looked at the people who succesfully got hired at Google".
Which seems a fair criticism to me. Google's hiring process may be as wacky and broken as any other corp, but they're a big name, and will attract a lot of very good applicants.
So "People who got succesfully got hired at Google, and don't have a prestigious degree, do about as well as people who got hired at Google and did have a prestigious degree."
If you're on the outside looking to get a job, you'd probably want to know what percentage of Google employees had prestigous degrees, and what other resume filling achievements the non-prestigious degree crowd had before basing any life decisions on this data point.
Which seems a fair criticism to me. Google's hiring process may be as wacky and broken as any other corp, but they're a big name, and will attract a lot of very good applicants.
So "People who got succesfully got hired at Google, and don't have a prestigious degree, do about as well as people who got hired at Google and did have a prestigious degree."
If you're on the outside looking to get a job, you'd probably want to know what percentage of Google employees had prestigous degrees, and what other resume filling achievements the non-prestigious degree crowd had before basing any life decisions on this data point.