Cerf Launches UK Recruiting Tour

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that networking pioneer Vint Cerf is planning to tour the UK in an attempt to recruit coders for Google. From the article: 'Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.'"

Comments

They need to speed up their recruitment process

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps they should reconsider requiring six or seven interviews involving people from three different countries and an elapsed time of two to three months?

I understand they only want to hire good people but good people will probably get a stack of written job offers before Google gets anywhere near making a decision.

Re:They need to speed up their recruitment process

[valen]

  I'd rather risk losing someone good than be lumped with someone weak who got through a light the recruitment process.

  I don't know what the ratio to hire-nohire is, but some engineers do a hundred 45 min interviews a year, on top of their normal jobs. So it's not just difficult on the applicants; but there is a really good reason for it.

  Some people say "So, just hire bad people and fire them later". Google isn't like a normal company. Stuff is done so differently that you can't afford to spend months bringing them up to speed, then find out that they can't hack it.

John

Aggressive recruiting

[jmv]

Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.

I've just been to both linux.conf.au and FOSDEM and in both cases, Google has been recruiting really aggressively. By that, I mean someone you've never met just popping in with "Hello, have you considered working for Google?".