Because of the company’s enormous growth [doubling each year with 200 new employees every week], Google has been looking at other ways to make the hiring process smoother and more successful.

Previously known for only hiring ‘top of the class’ graduates with no less than a 3.7 grade-point average, they are looking at alternatives to finding more well-rounded individuals.

?As we get bigger, we find it harder and harder to find enough people,? said Laszlo Bock, Google?s vice president for people operations. ?With traditional hiring methods, we were worried we will overlook some of the best candidates.?

Now with a complex 300 question survey, Google hopes to get the right people, not necessarily the most book-smart.

?We wanted to cast a very wide net,? Mr. Bock said. ?It is not unusual to walk the halls here and bump into dogs. Maybe people who own dogs have some personality trait that is useful.?

?More and more in the time I?ve been here, we hire people based on experience as a proxy for what they can accomplish,? he said. ?Last week we hired six people who had below a 3.0 G.P.A.?

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