For the past decade Google has seemed like a deer in headlights, unable to move in any direction, failing at introducing new products, now getting crushed on AI.
Maybe the problem has something to do with the way they hire. The article mentions that this string-processing problem had to be approved by a committee:
”Twice I asked the hiring committee if I should stop using this and they had no problem with it.”
Not even the Soviet Union had a process where job interview questions were regularly approved by a committee. The level of bureaucracy in administering these brain puzzles at mass scale is absurd.
The article mentions that the candidate who did best on this question was “the type who did high-school competitions.” I wonder if anyone stopped at any point to question whether that’s the ideal type of hire.
Maybe the problem has something to do with the way they hire. The article mentions that this string-processing problem had to be approved by a committee:
”Twice I asked the hiring committee if I should stop using this and they had no problem with it.”
Not even the Soviet Union had a process where job interview questions were regularly approved by a committee. The level of bureaucracy in administering these brain puzzles at mass scale is absurd.
The article mentions that the candidate who did best on this question was “the type who did high-school competitions.” I wonder if anyone stopped at any point to question whether that’s the ideal type of hire.