I don’t know how, but today I found out that Google Research is blogging. I was excited to see Google Research blogging (well, I’m a PhD student at this point, and I hope I get a chance at Google Research one day).
Anyway… one interesting post that I found there is related to Google’s hiring policy. According to the post, the policy Google follows is “hire only if candidate is above the mean quality of current employees”. That is setting the bar pretty high! They compared to another policy that goes like “Hire if the candidate is better than at least one of our current employees”. The poster ran simulations that supposedly support the Google policy as better. Intuitively, it seems to be.
An interesting side note: to improve the quality even more, Google does not use the concept of hiring managers, which is a common thing in the industry, as far as I know (at least Microsoft and IBM use hiring managers…). Their reasoning make sense. Go there and read the whole post, it is interesting.
