Google Adjusts Hiring Process As Needs Grow, by Kevin Delaney

Current employees at Google were questioned on about 300 variables, including their performance on standardized tests, the age at which they first used a computer, how many foreign languages they spoke, how many patents they had and whether they had ever been published.

Given this line from the new head of HR, Laszlo Bock, one of the variables they don’t reject people for is the ability to spew bullshit [emphasis mine]:

“Everything works if you’re trying to hire 500 people a year or 1,000. But we’re hiring much larger numbers than that, and so it forces us to go back and say…what do we need to change in the way we interface with our candidates?”

Oops, I forgot, the idiots in HR talk like that everywhere you go.