- E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF

[Aahz]

In article <1h8yup6.90e6xths96jkN%aleax at mail.comcast.net>,
Alex Martelli <aleax at mail.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>Giving outstanding contributions to open-source projects or others made
>feasible by the internet is, of course, another "hard to fake signal"
>in terms of asymmetric-information markets.  And of course, Google will
>happily accept resumes from such "stars of open source".  For example,
>Eric Raymond has no university degree, but, were he to apply for a job
>at Google, rest assured that his resume would be happily considered,
>under the "or equivalent" clause of many of our job offers.  Of course,
>Eric is "outstanding among the outstanding", but similar considerations
>may apply to many lesser stars in the open-source firmament.

Side note: I don't have a degree, and I interviewed at Google several
years ago.  I'm about 97% certain that my lack of degree played little
role (if any) in my failure to get a job offer.
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