True story: A hiring committee at Google had a reputation for being particularly tough. Each week the hiring committee would review the interview results from the weeks interviews and make the hire/no-hire decision for each of the candidates. This hiring committee wanted to keep their bar high, so they approved very few hires. To reduce bias in the interview process, the hiring committees at Google don't meet the candidates, they only get "interview packets" for each candidate, with notes and feedback from the people that conducted the interviews. The Google recruiter assigned to this particular hiring committee felt like their bar was unreasonably high and many exceptional candidates were being turned away. So they conducted an experiment… The next week the recruiter provided the hiring committee with eight candidates to review. None of them impressed the hiring committee and so they rejected all eight candidates. The recruiter smiled smugly and said: "Guess what guys - those were YOUR interview packets from when YOU interviewed at Google. You just decided not to hire any of yourselves." Sometimes we can be arrogant when we are the ones with the job and set a standard that even we don't meet. Stay humble.
I believe you because you have already claimed that this is a true story.
So did they fix this? Is it still happening? Lol
I totally agree with this. I have given chances to many people who probably would have been rejected by others. And they turned out great
And that recruiter’s name? Albert Einstein
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And the hiring bar's name? Escobar
I remember hearing this in a talk from an engineer at Etsy who is also an ex-Googler. https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0
It must be true if its on blind.
It's from some LinkedIn post
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Makes sense, I was wondering why that candidate had the same interview questions and answered it the same way as me. I'll brace myself for the smug recruiter I guess.
Maybe the process works and they shouldn’t have been hired ?
Thanks grandma.
Yes it's true. I was one of the interviewers.
BS. Are you saying you're Moishe Lettvin? https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0 This story was taken from "What I learned from 250 interviews at Google"