Leaked software engineering recruiter selection guideline

Nobody in big companies wants to hire from other big companies is funny. Google recently got a HR initiative to hire preferentially from start ups but also they almost always want people who worked in large scale projects. I think this is some sort of toxic cross pollination with Facebook.<p>Also it’s kind of ridiculous that they want founder level start up experience but also only top schools. Looking for a unicorn amongst unicorns

FAANG pipelines are likely full of people who fit these criteria - but then they whittle it down to only the ones who can performatively solve leetcode puzzles within strict time controls, and the leadership is left wondering why startups with &lt;1% of their resources are dominating in AI performance and mindshare.

If nobody was actually hiring people with &quot;short stints&quot; (&lt;2 yrs) then you wouldn&#x27;t be able to find anybody with a short stint ...<p>Although you wouldn&#x27;t also see so many short stints if people weren&#x27;t paid the direct cost of replacement ...

I&#x27;m amused by the fact that you&#x27;re not considered a &quot;job hopper&quot; if you change your company every two years.

I like how Cognizant is listed twice.

So.. For which company? The sentence &quot;there are scam profiles all around the IT world&quot; would not be on any real company of scale guidelines, and no company would put that much liability in one &quot;slide&quot; even if they had them.

In 2025, your programming interviews will require you to use an AI programming assistant.<p>Learn them. Get used to them. Become one with the machine. Or, go find another job.

This is all within the realm of possibility. I&#x27;ve heard hiring managers say similar things over my time in the industry. Not condoning it fwiw.

It looks like they want the sort of person who wouldn&#x27;t work at the sort of place they are.

Compensation for such profiles has to be half million+ too I hope.

That is why if you are a cracked hacker, to want to join one of these large tech companies is like wanting to join IBM in the 1990s.<p>You are much better off joining a startup or starting one of your own.