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In 2007 when I graduated, I thought Google hired the best of the best.

Recently they hired an exgf of mine with a degree from a school that accepts anyone, who gets confused watching TV shows, and has trouble doing basic math.

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Move on lol being this jealous and bitter will just hold you back

Is it possible I've dated several better women and am content with all that, but as a hackernews/YC content consumer, I genuinely do think Google has started hiring the dumbest of my exgfs while the best of my exgfs work at companies doing real things in the world? Or is anyone that ever has something negative to relate about an exgf jealous and bitter?

What company today is the Google of 2007 that only accepts the best of the best?

I can't think of any one. Perhaps the increase in the size of the industry from 2007 to 2023 might just come with a lowering of hiring standards so positions can be filled.

Gotta love downvotes for basic facts, not even opinion.

lol, because whining about your ex is a "basic fact"

The things I wrote are facts. She really did get confused watching average TV shows, and couldn't calculate basically anything. And she does work at Google now as some kind of project manager. I am not whining about her. I am whining about the poor hires google makes these days, which might explain the downward trajectory of their products we all see.

why would "school that accepts anyone" from around 2007 would be relevant in 2023? assuming similar age

lol

She was a 2014 grad. But why would it be relevant? Because she wasn't that great of a student and unless something changed since 2018, she wasn't that bright either (hence the confusion following story lines and inability to calculate anything more than simple addition).

If colleges don't matter, I'm not sure why so many successful companies paid attention during their starts. Its a pretty good metric to estimate intelligence, not knowledge IMO.

I'm sure she's a great project manager though!

She was a scrum master for 3 years at another company. One day I asked her what the term scrum stood for? I wasn't in the field at all so I had no idea. But it was an obvious question IMO. She didn't know. Next day I looked it up and learned it's just a rugby term. It came up a month later, and she still didn't know. I cared enough to look it up. She didn't. And it's her job. Now she's at Google. If you think that's not a bad sign, you might work at Google too.

College decade ago, your perception of her 5 years ago.

Dont get me wrong, you may be right, but those above are not reliable

like... you can change your whole life within 5 years, wow.

>If colleges don't matter, I'm not sure why so many successful companies paid attention during their starts. Its a pretty good metric to estimate intelligence, not knowledge IMO.

my personal opinion is that anything below top e.g top3 is more or less similar mess. I know grads across various topX levels and it never felt like a school was important factor. Top people are top

>She was a scrum master for 3 years at another company. One day I asked her what the term scrum stood for? I wasn't in the field at all so I had no idea. But it was an obvious question IMO. She didn't know. Next day I looked it up and learned it's just a rugby term. It came up a month later, and she still didn't know. I cared enough to look it up. She didn't. And it's her job. Now she's at Google. If you think that's not a bad sign, you might work at Google too.

Haha, actually not getting familiar with scrum seems like a good choice :) devs hate it with passion

Most people don't change that much.

She was very familiar with it, and it was her job. My point was, she only cared about the time wasting parts you hate. In general, she had little actual depth of knowledge or curiosity.

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