This is not really a knock on you, but more of a general commentary toward your reference book.
Google being "more selective is not really as impressive as it sounds, when you consider that applying to a company is significantly quicker than applying to a university. To try and make any sort of inference on that statistic is ignoring a distinctive difference that makes those two samples more like apples and oranges.
I have other issues with some of the logic from the book..
Fair point! I thought about that myself as I was reading his book.
It's true that Google has 1-3 million people apply for jobs at their company each year, but you're right, applying for a job costs you very little, so it's very possible that many of the applicants are nowhere near qualified.
For a college admissions process, where you generally have to pay a fee to submit an application, I'm sure they have a much smaller subset of people apply who are more likely to actually be qualified to attend Harvard.
So I agree, this is a bit of a bad comparison. Ignoring that, I think we can at least say that Google is quite selective in their hiring process, probably more so than other companies outside Silicon Valley.
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This is not really a knock on you, but more of a general commentary toward your reference book.
Google being "more selective is not really as impressive as it sounds, when you consider that applying to a company is significantly quicker than applying to a university. To try and make any sort of inference on that statistic is ignoring a distinctive difference that makes those two samples more like apples and oranges.
I have other issues with some of the logic from the book..
Fair point! I thought about that myself as I was reading his book.
It's true that Google has 1-3 million people apply for jobs at their company each year, but you're right, applying for a job costs you very little, so it's very possible that many of the applicants are nowhere near qualified.
For a college admissions process, where you generally have to pay a fee to submit an application, I'm sure they have a much smaller subset of people apply who are more likely to actually be qualified to attend Harvard.
So I agree, this is a bit of a bad comparison. Ignoring that, I think we can at least say that Google is quite selective in their hiring process, probably more so than other companies outside Silicon Valley.