Alice got in facebook just attended coding boot camp and did some algorithm practices. Why does facebook recruit a non experienced like Alice but turns off lots of talented (with a top school cs degree)/with decent working experiences? I am curious.
>>Why does facebook recruit a non experienced like Alice but turns off lots of talented (with a top school cs degree)/with decent working experiences?
I don't know what you're considering "talented", but Google seems to believe that your school/GPA has almost nothing to do with how well you'll perform on the job.
NOTE: Let's not confuse this with how likely you are to become another Zuckerberg. Starting a company is completely different from working at one. I don't think Zuckerberg could work at Google. He'd be bored out of his mind and/or argue with everyone, then quit in less than a year.
"GPAs don’t predict anything about who is going to be a successful employee. “One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation,” Bock said. “Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.”
