Isn't there a bit of self selection and typical Google pseudo-science going on with this approach? You can't get in the door of Google without a particular baseline standard resume. This is Fried's entire point, that he would actually consider a high school dropout whereas Google will not. It's a disagreement as to the relevance of a resume which is, for all intents and purposes, an abstraction of a person. Fried argues to skip over the abstraction and go straight to judging the person.
There is an entire group of people that the likes of Google simply will not look at and so it makes their results a little less substantive. Here are folks that would never get hired at Google in their 24 year old form:
-John Carmack
-Bill Gates
-Steve Jobs
-Larry Ellison
-Paul Allen
-Michael Dell
If Marissa Meyer truly believes she's found a statistically significant predictor, then I urge her to hire people without doing any interviews. She won't, because she knows it's more pseudo-science from Google. I wish more people would call them out on this kind of logic. They have a particular knack for marketing local maxima as the global kind.
There is an entire group of people that the likes of Google simply will not look at and so it makes their results a little less substantive. Here are folks that would never get hired at Google in their 24 year old form:
-John Carmack
-Bill Gates
-Steve Jobs
-Larry Ellison
-Paul Allen
-Michael Dell
If Marissa Meyer truly believes she's found a statistically significant predictor, then I urge her to hire people without doing any interviews. She won't, because she knows it's more pseudo-science from Google. I wish more people would call them out on this kind of logic. They have a particular knack for marketing local maxima as the global kind.