Re:Why I Studied Full-Time for 8 Months for a Google Interview
by judahmeek on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:42PM
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Nothing you said contradicts preordained's claim that a lot of Google's current hype is due to ego validation. In addition to having the highest average salaries in tech, Google has purposely made their hiring process very stringent, not because the techniques that they use more accurately predict job success rates, but because by making their job openings harder to obtain (in proportion to applications), they increase the subjective value of those job openings in the eyes of potential candidates.
It's premium branding, plain and simple, and the fact that Google employees have to justify the effort and time they put in to get hired in the first place partially explains why Google is rated so highly by current/past employees.
I'd be really curious to learn how much Google spends in man-hours for each hire in comparison to other tech companies.
Re:Why I Studied Full-Time for 8 Months for a Google Interview
by tekromancr on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:00PM
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Posting here because a sibling comment (throwaway username starting with hex_) is dead, but the content seems reasonable.
I'm 25, and I think I speak for a lot of folks my age when I saw that Google is the 'Bell Labs / IBM / whatever big influential company that makes a mark on you as a young adult" company of our time. Now I know that may not be the case now, but when I was deciding that being in technology was what I truly wanted to do (teenage years), Google was coming out with Gmail, and was the 'key' to the internet with search, and bought YouTube/Android, and was everywhere, so I really saw them as a pillar of modern day technology, and to a sense I still do. So whenever I get a call from a recruiter I can't help but be excited. I know their hiring practices are not perfect, but they are still a company who I look towards with bright eyes.*
* Albeit less bright as time goes on.