<story><title>Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/help-wanted-google-hiring-in-2011.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dadkins</author><text>&quot;There’s something at Google for everyone&quot;&lt;p&gt;...except for the 99% of applicants they reject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdibona</author><text>Whenever you hear a number like 99% of applicants are rejected or 1000 resumes a day are rejected, you should understand what&apos;s going on.&lt;p&gt;Google gets resumes and random text from 1000s of people a day looking for a job, all over the world, completely bereft of any sort of qualification. That&apos;s the vast majority of resumes any large business like Google will see. It&apos;s like Spam writ large.&lt;p&gt;So we have resume screeners who look at those random resumes and try to separate wheat from chaff. For some, we have a phone screen that is literally to check the most basic of facts to see if the resume is at all consistent with the name at the top, then a real phone screen with an engineer, then an onsite, then offer.&lt;p&gt;Each step loses people, but the first, separating the clear bs from the real is where the huge gap comes from.&lt;p&gt;That said, I hope we have more false negatives than false positives every step of the way, and for that, all I can say is that I wish it didn&apos;t have to be that way. Well, that, and this: Get referred by a Googler, skip many of the above steps :-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/help-wanted-google-hiring-in-2011.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dadkins</author><text>&quot;There’s something at Google for everyone&quot;&lt;p&gt;...except for the 99% of applicants they reject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>I think they reject a higher percentage than 99%. It&apos;s probably closer to 99.9%, or even 99.95%. They get something like 1,000,000 applications per year. It&apos;s crazy.</text></comment>