Google Respins Its Hiring Process For World Class Employees

An anonymous reader writes "Maybe you've been intrigued about working at Google (video), but unfortunately you slept through some of those economics classes way back in college. And you wouldn't know how to begin figuring out how many fish there are in the Great Lakes. Relax; Google has decided that GPAs and test scores are pretty much useless for evaluating candidates, except (as a weak indicator) for fresh college graduates. And they've apparently retired brain teasers as an interview screening device (though that's up for debate). SVP Laszlo Beck admitted to the New York Times that an internal evaluation of the effectiveness of its interview process produced sobering results: 'We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship. It's a complete random mess.' This sounds similar to criticism of Google's hiring process occasionally levied by outsiders. Beck says Google also isn't convinced of the efficacy of big data in judging the merits of employees either for individual contributor or leadership roles, although they haven't given up on it either." This has led TechCrunch to declare that the technical interview will soon be dead.

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Re:In conclusion

[Anonymous Coward]

Participating in the selection process for prospective hires is one of my duties in the company where I work as a technical supervisor, and there has always been one single predictor of how well an employee will perform - speaking good, fluent English with a polysyllabic vocabulary.

The electronics industry attracts a lot of first and second-generation immigrants from Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America - and, as you'd guess, they tend to speak pretty shitty English. We recently did a mass-layoff after administering written and spoken English tests to all employees on the production floor and discovering that they made pretty piss-poor communicators. Of course, that's an institutional problem, because America offers no incentive to get the freeloading foreign scum to learn our nation's official language. America just kinda lets 'em sit around, collecting welfare and Ching-chonging or Ooga-Booga-ing in their tiny social circles, without effort to integrate into the society which nurtures them.

Well, doggone it, I've had enough with the insidious brown and yellow menace. Have you ever been to Google's headquarters? I have. And guess what? Everybody there was white? Okay, they did have a token light-skinned magic Latino, but he was mostly White anyway and hired just for being there when the cameras come in.

So, in short, to the hiring manager I recommend beginning the interview with this question: " English, motherfucker, do you speak it? " If they answer with even the slightest hint of accent, end the interview - immigrants are trouble.

so its a social club

[decora]

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