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Ummm?

"Google doesn't even ask for GPA or test scores from candidates anymore, unless someone's a year or two out of school, because they don't correlate at all with success at the company. Even for new grads, the correlation is slight, the company has found."

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-people-2013...

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I've repeatedly heard statements from people at Google contradicting what Bock says about the process. Here's one public response from Gayle Laakmann McDowell (author of Cracking the Coding interview): https://www.quora.com/Why-doesn%E2%80%99t-Google-care-about-...

Things have changed a few times since Lazslo left, FWIW.

Also Eric Schmidt said as much in a recent Conversations With Tyler [1]:

> The recruiting started off as informal, but it ultimately became very, very structured. We were famously focused on the school you went to and your GPA and not your experience.

[1] https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/eric-schmidt-tyl...

Google explicitly said on their application advice page last year to include your GPA on your resume.

Well then, someone is lying here, because these two sides of the story seem to be in direct conflict with each other; at least one side’s claim must be false.

FWIW, an anecdote from my experience: Of all the companies I’ve ever applied to, Google is the only one that required unofficial course transcripts and GPA.

P.S. Starting a comment with “Ummm?” doesn’t really add much value to the discussion.

I understood what was meant by "Ummm?" In fact, I thought it was a nice way of conveying tone and introducing the upcoming quote.

I was asked for a copy of my transcript, which includes my GPA, a few months ago.

It might not correlate much with an employee's "success at the company" but that doesn't mean it has nothing to do with success of the company.

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