Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc

Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by throwaway1979 on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:51PM (#4010255)

Back when I was in undergrad, Microsoft was the most desired company to work for, and their interview process was legend. Google raised the bar (in terms of comprehensiveness and IMHO annoyance) but I wonder if that process is truly better vs wasted effort. You can't really say ... oh look how successful Google is. This reminds of the urban legend study that darts pick stocks as well as many of the top investment managers.

You know what I'd like to do at my own company? Hire people based on their unique experience and personality. Pay them fairly and assume employees have lives outside of work. Heh .. engineers can dream, can't they :-)

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by jrockway on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:54PM (#4010279)

Google employees are paid well and have lives outside of work.

The hiring strategy may or may not make Google money, but it does make my life there pretty pleasant, and I think the other 30,000 employees would mostly agree.

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