"One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation," says Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google.
Google doesn't ask for transcipts, test scores or GPA, unless a candidate is straight out of school and hasn't worked anywhere else. "We found that they don’t predict anything," Bock says.
In fact, some teams at Google have about 14 percent of associates who never have gone to college.
Anecdotes such as this are a reason some believe a big disruption of higher education both is coming, and is needed. People might be essentially wasting money and time in hopes of getting a job, when the experience does not predict success at work.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
You Might Question the Value of a College Education: Google Now Does
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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