[ILUG] Google 'behind the scenes' tech talk

[Conor Wynne]

> Consider it from Google's point of view.  We spend a *lot* of time on
> the hiring process.  I don't know the exact figures, but it's somewhere
> north of 40 man-hours per hire.  The whole process is designed to be as
> impartial as possible, and to eliminate both "good luck" and "bad luck"
> from the process; we don't want to lose people just because they had a
> bad day, and conversely don't want to hire someone just because they
> happened to have a rapport with one interviewer, or got lucky with our
> tech questions.
>
> So we set up multiple interviews with each candidate (usually about 6
> for engineers; often a lot more for managers - I had 13), and then the
> interviewers each enter their feedback independently.  Then the hiring
> committee (recruiters, group managers) look at all the feedback and
> make decisions.  This formula has been found to work *very* well; with
> the main drawback being that the recruitment process can drag on a bit
> [as you mention].  It's not rocket science, nor particularly
> mysterious, but it does get us excellent employees.  We haven't found
> that the resulting hires are "desperate", nor has competing offers been
> much of a problem - if someone wants to work for us and we want them to
> work for us, then it usually happens.  All jobs are not alike.

Thats very refreshing to hear. I wish more employers would do the same.

> 	Colm


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Conor Wynne,
Dublin,
Irlande.