Stanford / Entrepreneurship

Hiring: What Attributes Do You Look For?

By Larry Page Eric Schmidt | Strategy and Culture at Google Lecture 4 of 12

GRADED BY 1 USERS grade it
get flash player

Lecture Description

The first aspect Google considers when hiring is evaluating the applicant's capability of simply doing the job. Next, they look for people who can think outside the box, but still work within Google culture. Third, communication skills are critical for any employee, even engineers. Overall, co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt have found that if someone is exceptional at something, it is usually a good indicator that they are exceptional at everything.

Course Index

  1. Success Factors of Potential Partners
  2. Google and Language Translation
  3. Google's Legal Issues
  4. Hiring: What Attributes Do You Look For?
  5. Envisioning the Future for Google: Always a Search Engine?
  6. ROI on Advertising Models Online
  7. Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific
  8. Learning to Take Risks: A Personal Story
  9. Technology and Social Responsibility
  10. Search Engines and Competition
  11. New Leadership and Organizational Change
  12. Encouraging Creativity
Leave Feedback