Google's Young Brainiacs Go Globe-Trotting

theodp writes "To train a new generation of leaders, Google sends its young associate product managers on a worldwide mission. Newsweek's Steven Levy tagged along and reports on the APMs' activities, which included passing out candy, notebooks and pencils to poor Raagihalli children, a 'Rubber Ducky' group sing-along at 2 a.m., and competitions to find the weirdest-gadget-under-$100 in Tokyo. The APM program, which seeks brilliant kids and slots them directly into important jobs with no experience necessary, was formed after Google's attempts to hire veterans from firms like Microsoft had awful results. 'Google is so different that it was almost impossible to reprogram them into this culture,' says Google CEO Eric Schmidt of the experienced hires."

Comments

Re:No experience necessary?

[Dunbal]

Experience is important!

      Of course it is. You can't level up without it.

To whom it may concern

[thatskinnyguy]

Dear Google,

You are infringing on the copyright of our business model by assimilating it into your own and must demand that you stop using it at once!

Sincerely,
The Dot Com Bubble Companies of 1999

Re:Top-flight journalism from Slashdot again

[Breakfast Pants]

Far be it for a professional journalist like yourself to read all the way to page 2!