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21. How Can You Identify Hidden Talent? With Eric Schmidt.

No Stupid Questions

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What Does Success Look Like, and How Does Failure Look Like?

The team dynamics that you're describing are really, really interesting. And i agree with you on the noisiness. What i do believe is, since we'll be doing this for many, many years, we will get increasingly good feedback on our selection process. When i was at gougl we would have employees who were interviewers score the applicants and these scores were then adjusted in a mathematical way based on the performance of the employee a year later. Thet was anti correlated. You under predicted their performance completely wrong. This caused a huge stir. We completely changed the way women were interviewed because ther was clearly apparent bias. So there are tems of merit michael sandel wrote an

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