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Does Google still refuse to hire people unless they have computer science degrees? In this day and age that doesn't make sense.

thrownaway2424 12y ago
Google hasn't ever done that.
- SurfScore 12y ago
  The story says "Google had a reputation of hiring only people with computer science degrees." Dunno if it's true or not, I'm just curious.
  - gatehouse 12y ago
    Keep in mind this was 2003, Google had less than 2000 employees then.
  - jpatokal 12y ago
    It's never been an absolute policy, but they certainly used to prefer people with degrees; it's an easy filter when you've got a million CVs a year to parse through. HR found it was useless as a predictor of success, though, and the policy was officially dropped last year: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-hiring-non-graduates-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-hiring-non-graduate...
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tingley 12y ago
For technical positions, this was never a requirement afaik. For at least some non-technical positions, a college degree was required, although not for any reason I ever understood.
georgemcbay 12y ago
"Does Google still refuse to hire people unless they have computer science degrees?" No. "In this day and age that doesn't make sense." It didn't make sense when they semi-officially had that policy either, particularly if you consider how relatively young of a company Google is (granted, "young" is subjective, I'm 40 years old). But when you're incubated in academia and turn out to be very successful, it is easy to think that your best bet is to keep one and a half feet firmly planted in that world. Of course, Google isn't/wasn't alone, lots of companies have lots of policies that don't really make any sense outside of whatever echo chamber they've created for themselves.

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Does Google still refuse to hire people unless they have computer science degrees? In this day and age that doesn't make sense.

by SurfScore 12y ago

thrownaway2424 12y ago
Google hasn't ever done that.
- SurfScore 12y ago
  The story says "Google had a reputation of hiring only people with computer science degrees." Dunno if it's true or not, I'm just curious.
  - gatehouse 12y ago
    Keep in mind this was 2003, Google had less than 2000 employees then.
  - jpatokal 12y ago
    It's never been an absolute policy, but they certainly used to prefer people with degrees; it's an easy filter when you've got a million CVs a year to parse through. HR found it was useless as a predictor of success, though, and the policy was officially dropped last year: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-hiring-non-graduates-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-hiring-non-graduate...
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tingley 12y ago
For technical positions, this was never a requirement afaik. For at least some non-technical positions, a college degree was required, although not for any reason I ever understood.
georgemcbay 12y ago
"Does Google still refuse to hire people unless they have computer science degrees?" No. "In this day and age that doesn't make sense." It didn't make sense when they semi-officially had that policy either, particularly if you consider how relatively young of a company Google is (granted, "young" is subjective, I'm 40 years old). But when you're incubated in academia and turn out to be very successful, it is easy to think that your best bet is to keep one and a half feet firmly planted in that world. Of course, Google isn't/wasn't alone, lots of companies have lots of policies that don't really make any sense outside of whatever echo chamber they've created for themselves.