Google Uses Algorithm to Find Talented Employees
Posted on January 8, 2007
The New York Times is reporting that Google uses a computer algorithm to find quality employees.
The right answers could help get you a job at Google.The Google job algorithm seems appropriate for of a company that uses algorithms in its search engine and its online advertising systems. The Times says applicants are given a 0 to 100 score based how they answer the questions. Google has 10,000 employees and the article says that number could double this year. You can read more about working at Google at Google Jobs.Google has always wanted to hire people with straight-A report cards and double 800s on their SATs. Now, like an Ivy League school, it is starting to look for more well-rounded candidates, like those who have published books or started their own clubs.
Desperate to hire more engineers and sales representatives to staff its rapidly growing search and advertising business, Google - in typical eccentric fashion - has created an automated way to search for talent among the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month. It is starting to ask job applicants to fill out an elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to high school.
The questions range from the age when applicants first got excited about computers to whether they have ever tutored or ever established a nonprofit organization.
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