Post Processing: Hiring, Microsoft, Einstein, Google Fi, and Linux
I explored how tech hiring was broken in two previous posts: The Best Selling Tech Book On Amazon Is ... and Alternatives to the Whiteboard . An article from CNBC adds to the story. Historically, the Google hiring process required six to nine months and 15 to 25 interviews, but learning the lesson of diminishing returns, Google has adopted the " Rule of Four ." In the post Git-Hub Hub-Bub , I wrote how Microsoft, under Nadella, is different and better than when it was under Ballmer. Microsoft continues that trajectory as written in Bloomberg's The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance . Most telling is Nadella's mature reaction to a $1 trillion valuation: "... not meaningful" and any rejoicing about such an arbitrary milestone would mark "the beginning of the end." The figurines Albert Einstein and Homer Simpson sat together on my shelf for a few years. Every now and then, I wondered what they would say to each ot