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IniquityDenMotherMark2Monique Judge
1/30/18 10:44pm
But of course they’re going to hire black engineers! I mean, Google is totally biased against white guys, which means they must be a paradise for POC!
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Great House DagothMonique Judge
1/30/18 10:02pm
It certainly seems like a waste of Google’s resources to train these students and then not hire them. 4/14 doesn’t seem like a great hiring rate for in-house training, not to mention the 12/26 that didn’t apply for one reason or another.
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  Not Enough Day DrinkingGreat House Dagoth
  1/30/18 10:15pm
  It’s not in-house training. It’s community outreach. No offense to Howard, but its CS department isn’t up to snuff with MIT or CalTech where Google normally has pick of the litter from.
  So to have 4 students from a computer science department that probably isn’t ranked in the top 100 in the country is pretty remarkable.
  Or to put it another way. Normally Google hires 1,500 interns a year out of 40,000 applicants, so that’s a rate of less than 4%. But HowardWest’s 4 acceptances out of 14 applications is a nearly 30% acceptance rate. It also says only 4 accepted AND received, so it’s possible more were offered.
  It’s not a guarantee by any means, but it’s the best odds anyone is going to get.
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  Great House DagothNot Enough Day Drinking
  1/30/18 10:23pm
  Students attended the program on Google’s bay area campus and were taught by senior Google engineers as well as Howard faculty.
  
  This is where I assumed in-house training, but maybe that was not an accurate phrase to use.
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BlakeBortlesandJaymes: Thanos Won Because of NebulaMonique Judge
1/30/18 10:39pm
I don’t know if I want to replace techbros with hotechs. [/issajoke]
Good for Google trying out shit. The numbers and the optics look bad, but I’ll give it a pass since it was a opening salvo. Not everything works out perfectly the first time you try it.
Going back to the drawing board means implementing ideas in order to retain these students or push them into positions where they can succeed with other companies. Easier said than done, obviously.
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  WhiteEbolaInventorBlakeBortlesandJaymes: Thanos Won Because of Nebula
  1/30/18 11:11pm
  Hotechs...
  Goddamn.
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Heath Kirchart’s Last RailMonique Judge
1/31/18 12:00am
Google hires at the absolute top end of the credential market for engineers. This is a company that’s looking to hire PhDs, not just any old white techbro off the street. Interning at Google after participating in this program is a solid beginning to a career in the field, but chances are that Google is going to want a stronger skillset and more professional experience for a full-time hire.
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  SheeshTheseNamesHeath Kirchart’s Last Rail
  1/31/18 11:14am
  That’s not true at all. Most of those techies absolutely don’t have PHDs, and a commenter above pointed out that his/her friend that works for Google doesn’t even have a degree, and they hire from all types of programs, not just MIT are whatever is considered the elite.
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  Heath Kirchart’s Last RailSheeshTheseNames
  1/31/18 11:27am
  Most of those techies absolutely don’t have PHDs, and a commenter above pointed out that his/her friend that works for Google doesn’t even have a degree, and they hire from all types of programs, not just MIT are whatever is considered the elite.
  Sure, most of them don’t have PhDs. That would be pretty insane! But it serves as a solid reference point for the hires that Google is trying to make. They’d be tripping over themselves to hire someone like my friend, who has a PhD in CS and spent years doing AI lab research overseas. If you’re demonstrably brilliant right out of undergrad or have made something incredible on your own, you could get hired there without scads of on-paper credentials or a packed resume. That’s very true. But the fact remains that companies like Google are at the top of the food chain, and typically get their pick of the best-qualified candidates. Success in a training program, by itself, isn’t necessarily going to cut it. What we’re talking about here is a partnership between a corporation and a university to provide practical educational experience to students. This was almost certainly never explicitly designed as a direct pipeline to Google jobs. It’s done to cultivate talent not because it will transfer immediately to your own workforce, but because it’s broadly beneficial to your industry in the aggregate.
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