If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools

Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by cynicalkane on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:06PM (#15544809)

Google's interviewing process is incongruously uneven compared to the rest of the company, which is top-notch. I recommend giving it another thought. (Disclaimer: ex-Googler.)

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by eropple on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:54PM (#15545167)

Google can't offer me anything I want anymore. They could have when I was less experienced, but I have enough in my toolbox that ending up stuck in a Google ecosystem for years and losing my edge would be a net negative.

(I guess there's always the wheelbarrow of money, but they don't really even do that anymore, at least here in Boston.)

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by eradicatethots on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:36PM (#15547248)

If you work at google the little shits on the internet can’t say “LuL ur just not good enough” anymore.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by Bahamut on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:54PM (#15547062)

There are plenty of other great big tech companies that don’t have as terrible of an interview process and comparable pay.

I don’t know if I’ll ever try applying to Google again, especially after landing at one of their largest competitors & the company investing heavily in the area I am working in.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by walshemj on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:53PM (#15546214)

Why is that I have worked for a big multi national tech company and unless you had passed a 3 day course you where not allowed to interview candidates.

I would have thought that googles Hr would have a better proccess

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by mcguire on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:05PM (#15546535)

My theory: Google started by hiring only new grads from Stanford and then a few other top schools.

1. They're only interested in new grads, so experienced people are treated funny; they're outliers.

2. They're only interested in top schools, which act as a pre-filter. Anyone interviewed is probably a good hire anyway, so it doesn't matter whether your process is goofy.

3. We are talking Google. Anyone under the age of 30 is slobbering all over themselves to work for them.

Keep this up for a few generations and their hiring process is permanently wacky.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by exelius on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:51PM (#15546759)

Yeah, that ride is over. Google's rep is fucked with a lot of top schools anymore. Don't get me wrong; it's still a good company to work for, but getting a job at Google in 2017 is like getting a job at Microsoft in 2007. And the recruiting process is so stupid that the best candidates don't bother.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by walshemj on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:23AM (#15548888)

Ah so they don't have a HR director who can impose better practices no wonder they are having problems with being investigated for pay discrepancies.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by taneq on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:33AM (#15548207)

I'm curious how you reconcile these two facts, given that the rest of the company presumably joined via the interviewing process. Does this uneven process produce consistent results or do you simply weed out the less-than-top-notch hires quickly after hiring them?

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