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By: Owen Byrne

Owen Byrne — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:31:06 +0000

Since lots of people have pointed to Joel, I’d like to note that one of Google’s employees has written a nice riff on the original aphorism – “Done and Gets Things Smart”) http://steve-ye...ings-smart.html

By: Karen Jenkin

Karen Jenkin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:41:07 +0000

Couldn’t agree more with Marissa’s comments re: hiring smart people and assessing them within a month of being hired. Even though others here have said it’s an obvoius approach, it isn’t as easy in practice and is an age old issue. Check out our blog article on a military approach to hiring successful people!

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kodaz — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:53:24 +0000

This is a debate about Google H.R P.R…The real rule is: Hire those people that make you look good and make your life easier.

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By: biggerpicture

biggerpicture — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:39:43 +0000

Did everyone miss this from Joel:
http://www.inc....ip_pagen_2.html

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By: biggerpicture

biggerpicture — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:30:53 +0000

Your point is just right – you don’t get your fair share of the spoils.
Note hoewwever that it’s nuanced, not black and white.
Suit *has* a real job – to help you, not cripple you. He *should* get paid well if he’s helping you. Fair. It’s Vulture Capital guy who “risks” his money and orders stuff around.
If VC has ethics (dont laugh, please), or even simple farsight (rare too), he can do a lot about it. In theory.
He’s got the cash to throw – his family, invetsments, grandkids’ mansions are all already safe.
THEN, he takes “risks”! How brave!
“Cozied” suits are awesome people too. when you get sick out of working so hard, they just come and say – hey chill, man, take it easy, get a life. You think it’s finally proof of existence of emotion inside the suit and next morning you get a call from suit saying you didn’t do this and you should’ve done that.
Then you feel like a tissue (more interesting analogies abound… ). Then, you become a slacker.

If you’re working at BigCompanyInc, you have an option to make money alongside – if your suit is a real crook, start an opensource project doing something better than suit’s code and crowdsource it (see “catb”) and then leave and run your own show.
Keep a long memory of those cozy suits!
AND ONCE YOU’RE THERE, YOU DONT BECOME A SUIT OR A VC YOURSELF – that is your test.

Then you show them your *earned* millions, plus the BIGGER name that you have and emphasize the pink slip they may have got due to everyone’s beloved Wall Street Suits. They might even consider apologizing…

As for Google, specifically,
“google story david vise”

- e-sops – lots of em, to nooglers , IIRC
- the cook no.. masseuse no.. hairdresser no …. forgot! damn! – she made a cool few millions in google sops and now she runs an NGO from that money – noble lady.

google != stupid

Product rollouts are “business decisions” and they are happy to keep their cards close to them – that’s business – in many ways that helps a lot.
Larry and Sergey aren’t suits.
We’re feeling lucky!

DISCLAIMER:
Google pays me in kind: http://www.google.com
Roughly the best running search code on the web. I’ve never clicked a “Sponsored Link”, so it’s a zero-price lunch for me

I know about scroogle, but everyone eats, sleeps, poops… If you like anonymity that much, Yahoo! is your friend.

By: biggerpicture

biggerpicture — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:49:29 +0000

gates != jobs

By: SJ

SJ — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:28:59 +0000

The place I have interned at SAS I have done decent amount of work (3 projects) and shown enough intelligence (worked in three languages) for them to hire me. That’s where I started seriously getting and understanding web but they didn’t offer me job. either that team nor any other team..

Also the other number of interviews I had, I never felt they are looking for these qualities. Either I am groslly wrong or the interviewers are stupid. But whatever I am still in a crap job.. just only hoping to move out

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:52:36 +0000

Neil,
Good to see you on here.
Amazon rocks..I had the best time of my life when i was working there..great culture and i miss my pager!

Amit

By: Ron Boseman

Ron Boseman — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:04:32 +0000

Seems you’ve been lucky to only work for companies that hire brilliant candidates and for which office politics are not an issue.

Very few companies hire smart who gets things done. Most companies hire people willing to work for a substandard rate of pay in return for being a yes man and contributing to their manager’s empire building.

By: KillerLocator.com

KillerLocator.com — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:04:09 +0000

this explains why search is 98% solved.

By: Ron Boseman

Ron Boseman — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:59:18 +0000

I’ve not seen much of that on open source projects i’ve been involved in. Typically, there are a few people making substantial contributions. most of these don’t talk a lot because they are busy getting work done, and coordinating behind the scenes with other contributors via email. In the front facing side, you have the blowhards that talk a lot about all their contributions, most of which involve arguing about things they don’t understand, advocating a color change to the official product logo, and so forth. These management types tend to end up with positions of control from which they then dictate retarded changes to the REAL contributors, who then either abandon the project in dismay, or fork it.

By: Pat Kitano

Pat Kitano — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:11:06 +0000

First stop for finding any new hire should be the blogs and social media. The content not only mirrors the intellect but also discloses deal closings (assuming the writer is smart enough to proudly display closed deals). It’s all public and easily subject to verification. And it takes a lot of work and perseverance to establish a viable online presence.