Comments on: Do you have what it takes to join Google?

Sure, you have ideas for improving search, but can you express them as a haiku? Latest hiring scheme asks for that and more.
Google unveils desktop search

[djugan]

After years of admiration and support.....

I'm rapidly losing faith in Google, regardless of where I sit in the church.

Apparently, after a somewhat long and fruitful run, Google will go the way of that much travelled path.

[katamari]

Not even the tip of the iceberg.

Every person I know who's interviewed at Google (myself included) returns not only disappointed with the salary they offer (incredibly low for the Bay -- and still amazingly low despite our economic recession in the tech industry), but disappointed with their interviewing tactics as well.

Google has a major addiction with what you could call "jock geeks" -- that is, computer geeks who have an intense interest/addiction with sports. Basically, the concept is that if you don't "fit in" with the extroverted happy-go-lucky five-minutes-for-slashing lifestyle, you're never going to get hired. You could be the next Einstein and they wouldn't bother with you unless you showed some form of being an "elitist bastard".

I've yet to meet a single Google employee who _doesn't_ fit into the excessively extroverted category.

Google's hiring practises need a major reform. I think most of us understand the desire some companies have for "niche" employees, but this is taking it to the level where sooner or later they're going to end up in court.

[Earl Benser]

Another round-eye misconception

Haiku cannot be written in English. A bastardized 17 syllable
(character) poetic form is claimed to be real Haiku, but English
just doesn't have the complex meaning variants that the
Japanese language provides.A good Haiku is five unique and
independant thought trains. A great one may have up to seven
or eight.

Google had better rethink their hiring criteria, or maybe their
software will be as incorrect as their hiring criteria