Executive Jobs in Technology
At my other company, executive job site TheLadders.com, we send over 3,000 all-new jobs to our 180,000 subscribers each week. As a result, we see a lot of comments on the interview and hiring process all around the world and the world wide web.
I'd like to say that sentiments like Russell Beattie's negative views on taking the Google interview were unqiue, but they're not.
Over and over again we hear of arrogance, mishandling, and rudeness in the interview process. And then when that is cleared away, the underlying job is ill-defined, poorly resourced, and incompetently managed.
Like Google's G-mail announcement flop, and their IPO screw-up (I mean, how much dough did they really leave on the table? $1 billion? $2 billion? What does it take for Schmidt to get fired over there?), their hiring process is a symptom of amateurs running the show.
