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2006-03-12-clearlyBetter

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Peter Norvig on Google's hiring strategy: '[...] [H]ow do you maintain the skill level while roughly doubling in size each year? We rely on the Lake Wobegon Strategy, which says only hire candidates who are above the mean of your current employees. An alternative strategy (popular in the dot-com boom period) is to justify a hire by saying "this candidate is clearly better than at least one of our current employees."'

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