It looks like a fairly standard Phd student resume to me. I don't really see much extra in it. Yes there are some published papers, but so have many Phd students. Regarding google success, I would say him studying the right subject and doing the right things (start a startup) mattered much more than his CV and interests.
the two papers he got published were in VLDB and SIGMOD, which are the two top conferences in databases and data management ... even pre-google, this guy had cred!
It's top 1%, but quite under-impressive compared to how talented and impressive he actually is, which establishes the very low utility of resume evaluations.
I worked at a hedge fund and we rejected people with more impressive resumes, and it only takes about 6 interviews before you realize how low the correlation is between how someone looks on paper and how smart they actually are.
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I hate to be one of those crazy predictors, but I wonder if Google will ever partner with Netflix on that topic. It seems like a good idea.
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[+] [-] pw0ncakes|16 years ago|reply
I worked at a hedge fund and we rejected people with more impressive resumes, and it only takes about 6 interviews before you realize how low the correlation is between how someone looks on paper and how smart they actually are.
[+] [-] bravesirrobin|16 years ago|reply