Google is seeking to streamline its famously convoluted and quirky hiring process as it aims to recruit record numbers this year and increase its intake of people with entrepreneurial, rather than purely intellectual, talent.
The new approach includes a new "rule of five" that limits the number of interviews a candidate can attend to no more than that number, said Laszlo Bock, head of human resources. In the past, would-be Googlers were often subjected to 12-14 interviews, he added.
The company is also trying to cut out the kind of intellectual mind games its interviewers have often used to test the brain power of potential hires. That has involved "questions like why is a manhole cover round and how many ping-pong balls does it take to fill an aeroplane?" Mr Bock told the Financial Times
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