[lit-ideas] Re: Google Job Interview Questions
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:40:17 -0700
I think, my friends, we are old. We forget that Google is hiring twenty and
thirty-somethings. They may not only be attracted by the offbeat style and
challenge of Google's interviews.
Ah, John, I don't just think I'm old. I know it. (To hell with
epistemology.) However, I've been around twenty-somethings fairly
often for over fifty years, and still meet and discuss things with
them over the course of a semester each year at Reed. I wouldn't want
to speak for them but I'd be disappointed if any of them were enticed
by Google's questions. I could be wrong, of course (a nod to
epistemology) about their being enticed but I'm sure of my own
reaction to it.
I suspect that most of us here are members of generations for whom "good
jobs" meant secure employment with good benefits in large, durable
organizations. The people that Google is trying to hire know full well that
good jobs in that sense are increasingly rare and likely to be dead ends,
traps for those who fall into them.
Most of us, I suspect, know by now that secure, let alone life-long
employment with benefits, pensions, etc., is a thing of the past. This
is irrelevant to what I said earlier: the questions themselves are so
unimaginative that I find it hard to believe (see Descartes) that
anyone's imagination would be stimulated by them.
Robert Paul,
born quite a few years too soon
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