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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by hinkley on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:50PM (#9696972)
They have publicly admitted there's no correlation between their hiring process and outcomes. I'm not even clear [why] we're still debating this.

Other than to wonder why they still haven't done anything about it. (I interviewed there ~8 years ago, pre Android when they were looking for deep mobile expertise and got flunked out on a similar problem. I am not at all interested in working for them now)

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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by alexfernandez on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:24PM (#9708644)
To show that there is a correlation you have to quantify both hiring process evaluation and job performance. Since both are elusive quantities that are hard to quantify, showing there is no correlation may just mean that measurements are done poorly. E.g. when job success is measured by boss satisfaction.
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