{"id":1176,"date":"2014-04-29T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom-magazine\/?page_id=1176"},"modified":"2014-08-05T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:20:11","slug":"learning-from-google","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom-magazine\/summer14\/learning-from-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hiring isn\u2019t an art, it\u2019s a science:<\/strong> Google uses an algorithm to help predict a candidate\u2019s probability of success within the company. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upstart.com\/\">Upstart<\/a> cofounder Anna (Mongayt) Counselman, a former head of Google\u2019s enterprise customer programs, the search giant would \u201cinterview 100 engineers\u201d to find the right one. It\u2019s important, she adds, not to give in to temptation in a desperate attempt to fill a seat and get back to work. \u201cIt\u2019s worth it to take the short-term pain of continuing to interview until you get that person who\u2019s going to be awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iterate, iterate, iterate:<\/strong> Rather than spending days at the conference table figuring out every permutation of a decision, just go for it. According to Counselman\u2014and as shown by Google\u2014it\u2019s infinitely more valuable to get prototypes in front of customers and learn from their responses.<\/p>\n<p>And one thing Counselman had to learn herself:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feel the fear:<\/strong> At a start-up, says Counselman, you won\u2019t always have perfect information and won\u2019t always know what you\u2019re doing. \u201cBut it\u2019s okay to just feel the fear and do it anyway and trust that you\u2019ll figure it out as you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read about Counselman&#8217;s experiences of jumping from Google to a Silicon Valley start-up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom-magazine\/summer14\/think-like-a-googler\/\"><\/em>Think Like a Googler<em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring isn\u2019t an art, it\u2019s a science: Google uses an algorithm to help predict a candidate\u2019s probability of success within the company. 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