Coach Thrasher

Google: hire my Wife!

Google's got some interesting hiring practices, and I really found this article (brought to my attention by Slashdot) interesting: Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm. I've always looked at the Goog's much publicized hiring practices as a marketing scheme to make you think of their company as you might think of Stanford, or any Ivy. The message being: Google is the Ivy of companies.

I would have actually not made it past their previous, GPA based, hiring practices. I just never did my homework, but I could take a test and ace it by reading the appropriate chapters myself the night before, or sometimes just by attending and listening to lectures. So, my grades suffered from homework. As a result, I easily passed, but Google would frown.

My wife on the other hand is much different... with any academic pursuit. Not only does she do her homework, she aces nearly everything on both homework and on tests.

Google: hire my Wife!

Bridget has started two companies, in software consulting, and in wine sales. She was voted her high school's "most likely to succeed". She's a Caltech alumni. She's got 3 master's degrees: Earth Science, IT, and Engineering. She has passed her QE for her Ph.D., while taking supplemental classes in related subjects outside of the university. She volunteers for Team in Training to support the Lukemia and Lymphoma Society. She has raised over $5000 for charity. She motivates other people to succeed. She's a Notary Public who handles mortgage signings (her third independent business). And, the kicker: she has a dog.

The only thing she's not good at is trumpeting her own horn.

Google: hire my Wife! (try: jobs[a]coachthrasher[.]com)

Oddly, it seems Google is changing their hiring ways, so maybe there's hope for the rest of us. They are asking questions like: "Did you start a club in high school?" because it's a sign of strong leadership. What? I started two engineering clubs in high school. Google never called! I also tried to start a bicycle racing club with a petition (the school's administration was opposed to it). And I published one edition of an underground newspaper. Maybe there is hope, and one day I'll get a job at an Ivy. (Hopefully they will be buying my company for $1.65 Billion, and I won't even have to interview.)

Posted at 10:35PM Jan 05, 2007 by jason in General  |