Google: GPAs are worthless | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Google: GPAs are worthless | Technically Incorrect - CNET News: "Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and GPAs 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."

"Bock said the percentage of Googlies who've never been to college is increasing. Sometimes, as much as 14 percent of team members are entirely unsullied by phis, betas, kappas, and Saturday football rah-rahs."

"We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time." "They don't predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart."

"when you ask somebody to speak to their own experience, and you drill into that, you get two kinds of information. One is you get to see how they actually interacted in a real-world situation, and the valuable 'meta' information you get about the candidate is a sense of what they consider to be difficult"

 "You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer."