Google hiring flawed
By Ria Sharma

Google is arguably the best search engine in the world and its email system is fast overtaking most rivals. Other Google products like Maps, YouTube and blogging platform are used by tens of millions of people every day. On Oct 15, Google announced that its quarterly profits had risen by 27 percent to $1.65 billion.

Every year, millions of people sent in their applications for a job at Google.  Apart from the technology, Google is a great paymaster and showers wonderful perks on its employees.  Not surprisingly, Google boasts that it ‘recruits only the best of the best’.  And candidates will jump through hoops to get a coveted Google job.

But is seems that parts of the Google recruitment system are flawed.  Valleywag is reporting

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The recruitment process tends to give the worst scores to the best future employees.

That's according to Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, former Google director of search quality and former head of the Computational Sciences division at the NASA Ames research center. Here's what Norvig tells Peter Seibel in a Q&A in the new book Coders at Work:

‘One of the interesting things we've found, when trying to predict how well somebody we've hired is going to perform when we evaluate them a year or two later, is one of the best indicators of success within the company was getting the worst possible score on one of your interviews. We rank people from one to four, and if you got a one on one of your interviews, that was a really good indicator of success.’
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