![]() Rather than starting with the theory of what ought to be and then trying to impose policies culled from theory. They look at the data, crunch it and then think about what they've found. What really interests about these management lessons is that Google is famously engineering driven. It may indeed be true that they need to have knowledge to join that economy: but clearly the current education system isn't necessarily providing it. ![]() Another way of putting this is that Google has just exploded the idea that the knowledge economy means ever more people need to go to college. If Google (and no, this is important, this is Google) is saying that the pieces of paper provided by the US education system don't mean much to it then don't you think this is showing something of a problem with that US education system? And it's most certainly showing that in order to join that knowledge economy you don't have to suffer through more years of that US education system. Which might even be true: but clearly, it's not necessary to gain more formal education the way the education system currently does it. But if formal educational qualifications (14% without a college degree? Assuming they're not talking about the cooks and the janitors but about the engineering and programming teams can you think of another US company with that sort of number without any college?) don't mean much to them then this is a serious problem for the current methods of education.įor the argument usually goes that as we're in a knowledge society then everyone needs to gain more education. Google is, clearly and obviously, a knowledge company in the knowledge economy. It's not true to say that this means that we're not a knowledge economy. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. We found that they don’t predict anything. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. 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. The second is that formal education qualifications don't seem to mean all that much:
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