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Hiring Practices of
Leading Innovative Companies
Examples
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Google's hiring
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"Our hiring process is
legendary. We have hiring
committees that are checked by
other committees. An engineering
candidate talks to an average of
eight engineers. I talked to 20
people before I was hired. I'll
ask
candidates
who aren't engineers how to
build a Web crawler. The right
answer doesn't matter. I want to
hear you
think the
problem through,
because the odds are good that
since we're an
innovative company, you're
not going to know how to do what
you're going to be asked to do.
You're going to have to
figure it
out."
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Douglas Merrill,
Google
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When I started Oracle, my primary goal
was to create an environment where I would enjoy working with people
I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked. |
Larry Ellison |
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I took anybody. They were a full
collection of people. They took risks in their careers. Some
were misfits at other places. I took a lot of misfits in. |
Charles
Schwab |
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"Part of what made the Macintosh
great was that the
people working on it were
musicians, and poets, and
artists, and zoologists, and
historians who also happened to
be the best computer scientists
in the world."
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Steve Jobs,
Apple
"We hire people and screen them
for what we call BVAC
characteristics:
Bright,
Verbal,
Assertive,
Creative."
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Hal Tovin, Citizens Financial
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Pick good people, use small teams, give them
excellent tools... so that they are very productive in terms of what they are
doing. |
Bill Gates |
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Perception of connections
between different areas of
knowledge
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At-a-glance linguistic ability
to interpret software code
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Obsessive concern with the
problem on
hand, even when
away from work
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Great powers of concentration
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Photographic recall of their
work
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