Friday, June 21, 2013

Big Data & Google HR

On GPAs and Brainteasers: New Insights From Google On Recruiting and Hiring | LinkedIn


“We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time."

... “One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation,”

... It’s a complete random mess, except for one guy who was highly predictive because he only interviewed people for a very specialized area, where he happened to be the world’s leading expert.”

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