MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Big Data and Hiring at Google
By EmmaZahn on Thu, 06/20/2013 - 3:07pm |
One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything.
What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.
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After two or three years, your ability to perform at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you required in college are very different. You’re also fundamentally a different person. You learn and grow, you think about things differently.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?smid=pl-share
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Comments
Interesting.
It reminded me of having read this the other day @ Slate:
I Would Have Hired Edward Snowden:
A former Google and Microsoft engineer explains why elitist, arrogant rebels often make the best employees.
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/20/2013 - 6:47pm