A: Great article<p>B: what does his have to do with Google? That they hire people like Peter Norvig once in awhile?<p>edit: Maybe Google is mentioned on the second page? The OP is from 2010 and so the rest of the content (if any, hard to tell with how it ends) is behind a paywall. But what's shown is still a good read.<p>However, this was written in 2010. What research has been done since then? I imagine that the situation has not changed much since 2010, and may have become worse in terms of the bias. Would love to see more up-to-date or more comprehensive research and findings on this topic.<p>---<p>This fear of over-qualification speaks a sad truth about the nature of institutions. When asked to think about it, I think most reasonable people would agree with the statement "You should hire the best qualified person and the company should adapt to that person's initiative and ideas"<p>But that's not how things work. At a very selfish level, people don't want to be shown up. It would take a very altruistic middle manager to hire someone who could push the ship in the right direction, if that pushing threatened the manager's job (as many reorganizations tend to do). Really, the only person who can hire the best without feeling threatened is the CEO, but in bigger companies, they usually aren't involved. And it's the CEO who would have unilateral power to let the overachievers grow, rather than be stifled by the constraints of their department.