Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How to Get a Job at Google



MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — LAST June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google — i.e., the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world’s most successful companies — noted that Google had determined that “G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. ... We found that they don’t predict anything.” He also noted that the “proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time” — now as high as 14 percent on some teams. At a time when many people are asking, “How’s my kid gonna get a job?” I thought it would be useful to visit Google and hear how Bock would answer.
Don’t get him wrong, Bock begins, “Good grades certainly don’t hurt.” Many jobs at Google require math, computing and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.
“There are five hiring attributes we have across the company,” explained Bock. “If it’s a technical role, we assess your coding ability, and half the roles in the company are technical roles. For every job, though, the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the ability to pull together disparate bits of information. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they’re predictive.”
The second, he added, “is leadership — in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership. Traditional leadership is, were you president of the chess club? Were you vice president of sales? How quickly did you get there? We don’t care. What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you’re a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else? Because what’s critical to be an effective leader in this environment is you have to be willing to relinquish power.”
What else? Humility and ownership. “It’s feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in,” he said, to try to solve any problem — and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. “Your end goal,” explained Bock, “is what can we do together to problem-solve. I’ve contributed my piece, and then I step back.”
And it is not just humility in creating space for others to contribute, says Bock, it’s “intellectual humility. Without humility, you are unable to learn.” It is why research shows that many graduates from hotshot business schools plateau. “Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn how to learn from that failure,” said Bock.



“They, instead, commit the fundamental attribution error, which is if something good happens, it’s because I’m a genius. If something bad happens, it’s because someone’s an idiot or I didn’t get the resources or the market moved. ... What we’ve seen is that the people who are the most successful here, who we want to hire, will have a fierce position. They’ll argue like hell. They’ll be zealots about their point of view. But then you say, ‘here’s a new fact,’ and they’ll go, ‘Oh, well, that changes things; you’re right.’ ” You need a big ego and small ego in the same person at the same time.

The least important attribute they look for is “expertise.” Said Bock: “If you take somebody who has high cognitive ability, is innately curious, willing to learn and has emergent leadership skills, and you hire them as an H.R. person or finance person, and they have no content knowledge, and you compare them with someone who’s been doing just one thing and is a world expert, the expert will go: ‘I’ve seen this 100 times before; here’s what you do.’ ” Most of the time the nonexpert will come up with the same answer, added Bock, “because most of the time it’s not that hard.” Sure, once in a while they will mess it up, he said, but once in a while they’ll also come up with an answer that is totally new. And there is huge value in that.
To sum up Bock’s approach to hiring: Talent can come in so many different forms and be built in so many nontraditional ways today, hiring officers have to be alive to every one — besides brand-name colleges. Because “when you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people.” Too many colleges, he added, “don’t deliver on what they promise. You generate a ton of debt, you don’t learn the most useful things for your life. It’s [just] an extended adolescence.”
Google attracts so much talent it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers. But Bock is saying something important to them, too: Beware. Your degree is not a proxy for your ability to do any job. The world only cares about — and pays off on — what you can do with what you know (and it doesn’t care how you learned it). And in an age when innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, it also cares about a lot of soft skills — leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn. This will be true no matter where you go to work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=1&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Opinion&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=article

Monday, February 24, 2014

"they hated her because she is a star"

mostly correct with the understanding that so many people hated a person who had never met in their life, therefore there are more then what is said.......

The confluence of the following that resulted in my termination.

For the full view of my EEOC case: http://eeoccase.blogspot.com/

Tuan Nguyen and his countrymen instigated defamation of “no one wanted her; no one liked her; etc the first month we were on the job with classmates in the Training Academy (I didn't know anyone in the DC metro.  Asian males don't like to work with women, especially Americanized Asian women who could do the job they could not.).  Shawn Joseph then spread to other Training Classes, where they spread to the rest of the Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO employee and Tuan Nguyen's countrymen/women spread to their families, friends, neighbors and neighborhoods such as the Arlington, VA. As the result, I can't secure a job while being sexually harassed, abused, physical harm, and rape threats that resulted in the slit of my throat that was meant to kill me such this EEOC case would go away.

The likes of Tuan Nguyen and his countrymen set a bad precedent of defaming me that followed by Shawn Joseph, Randy Shaffer, Reza Nabi, and other Lab 2 classmates, which is the source of a cesspool. No one notice me prior to Tuan Nguyen and his countrymen defamations of me, as well Shawn Joseph’s defamation of me.

As time progresses, defamations such as Paul Rodriguez, the SPE Trainer played favoritism toward women, and only liked to talk and help women; or that good looking woman had it easy because guys like to help them, etc., beginning to promulgate the class; in reference to me talked to Paul about patent cases; to which I had to keep a distance such not to create resentment toward either one of us. If I didn’t stop talking to Paul, the next slander would be to accuse Paul and I having an affair. I knew this because similar accusations had been made toward me when I worked in the Silicon Valley, by people-from-Asia; just like America in the Dark Age when witch-hunt was practiced.  

My officemate Hung Havan and his cabal Nathan Hillery, Michele Choi, Susanne Lo and her friends from India actively defaming me after Hung Havan learned via my docket that I was already doing 3 cases per biweek at the beginning of June, 2011; like all Asian males, they don't like women who could do the job they could not. Also, Nathan Hillery, Hung Havan and Michele Choi had elbowed my chest deliberately in the Patent and Trademark Office. On my last day, Hung Havan stretched out his arm deliberately hit my breast and stopped me from saying good-bye to Erica in front of her, also blocked the hallway so I couldn't go say good-bye to other coworkers. When I went back to my office, Michele Choi had already stolen most of my office supply, and elbowed me on the chest to push me out of her way. Nathan Hillery deliberately elbowed me on his way home in May/June 2011. All these people had defamed me and set me up to be sexually harassed, abused, termination, physical harm and rape that resulted in the slit of my throat that was met to kill me, are still working in the Patent and Trademark Office. How safe are people working with them?

Someone may had saw Nathan Hillery elbowed my breast/chest and reported him to authority, that's why he set me up for termination as retaliation thinking that I was the one reported him.  This was why I didn't report for fear of retaliation as I was a probationary employee that can be fired for anything.

My SPE (supervisor) Paul Rodriguez notified me on Aug, 10, 2011 that I was going to be terminated and my last day will be on Aug. 12, 2011. I asked Mr. Rodriguez why, he said I had low performance, I said my performance was at 93%, he then said it was from management. Others had given a 2 weeks notice, I was terminated in a hurry. As soon I got back to my office, I sat down and still tried to finish a patent case. That’s how sudden this news was, how entrench I was in my patent examining job, and how crazy my working condition was. I hadn’t seen daylight for months after I started this job. I only had time to visit my family once in NYC. I requested for vacation to move my belongings from NYC, but only approved for one day.

Mr. Rodriguez had been setting me up to be terminated from the get-go by impose stringent requirements on me but not of my peers, also deliberately put difficult and complex COPA cases in my docket to ensure I couldn't meet the requirements, amount many other such underhanded tactics deployed to ensure I would be terminated. I met every stringent requirements and then some, also an airtight first case that was known to many SPEs and the then Undersecretary and Director of USPTO Mr. David Kappos. I may be the first woman to have an airtight first case. I was also one of the most qualified candidates with extensive industry experience in the Patent class 703 field, also a Master's in EE, as an adjunct and an Applied Physics searcher with published paper.

Dwin Criag initiated my termination process after he heard the defamation of Susanne Lo's boyfriend Bill and I will be married soon announced by Susanne Lo and her friends from India.  Dwin had certain resentments toward Asian women, and he might not like the likes of Susanne Lo and Michele Choi.  Additionally,  my office-mate Hung Havan and Nathan Hillery also misled people into thinking I am just like Susanne Lo and Michele Choi. Dwin Craig also held a grudge against Bill, so when he heard Susanne Lo in the Party said Bill and I was going to be married soon, he started the process of terminated me.

Weeks before my termination and around the time an AU2123 Examiner (the only Asian and an Engineering Professor THANGAVELU KANDASAMY (?)) gave a party on becoming a Primary; where Susanne Lo’s friends-from-India were invited, along with Dwin Craig, Paul Rodrigues and Jason Procter, as well me. Also the day AU 2123 got our laptop (an i7 CPU!! Finally something decent to work with), and Jason Procter came to pick up his new laptop. I believed this is when Susanne Lo’s friends-from-India learned Dwin Craig and Paul Rodrigues were my Primary and SPE and defamed me with them to incite them to terminate me, which Dwin and Paul already prone to do so as explained before. (Aside from asking Paul and Dwin what Susanne Lo and friends-from-India said about me in this party, also ask Jason Procter and others in the party.) Days after this party, Hung Havan suddenly asked me how long will I last here, meaning when I will be terminated. I said depends on the kind of people we have here; if there are more good people then bad people, I will last; otherwise I won’t last. He knew then I was in the process of being terminated. Hung Havan also said romantic relationship is prohibited in the office, I said “yeah, most companies have this policy”. Days before the party, I overheard Hung Havan told Susanne Lo that Bill (in charge of COPA, also Susanne Lo's boyfriend) and I were going to be married when Susanne Lo inquired about house purchasing with Hung, which was strange to me as I knew Susanne Lo was Bill’s girlfriend, and I told Hung Havan I already have a boyfriend; so I didn’t think much of it, surely nobody is going to believe something as asinine as this, or at least do some fact checking, unless nefarious individuals use this as an excuse to terminate me. But this is just one example of Hung Havan’s defamation of me, the result of deep-seated hatred toward women outperform him.
This party may sealed the faint of my termination as I left early to work on my patent cases as I had to meet 3 cases per bi-week quota. A few hours later, I brought Michele Choi to the party room to pick up leftover food where we ran into Dwin Craig, he looked mad when he saw me and Michele Choi. I knew he and Michele Choi had some sort of dispute. Dwin may think I am a friend of Michele Choi, and believed the continuous character assassination of me by Nathan Hillery, Michele Choi, Hung Havan and Susanne Lo’s friends-from-India, as well many others as the result of the vilification of me; also held a grudge again Bill (in charge of COPA) who Nathan’s coterie misled people into believing Bill and I had some sort of relationship, whom I spoken to only a few times; in addition to Dwin’s bigotry/discrimination toward Chinese women, finally set in the process of terminated me with the help of Nathan, via the top level woman management, with the consensus of the TC2100 management as the result of misled information mostly from Nathan Hillery, Hung Havan and Michele Choi (all with questionable character and psychologically unstable). Finalized after spoken to Hung and believed his defamation of me. Again, I worked nearly 24/7 that resulted in 93% Productivity, hardly leave my office nor did I have the time to talk to anyone.
Dwin Craig looked mad and screamed at me in front of Michele Choi.  Which Michele Choi may had reported Dwin Craig to an authority, and he initiated the process of terminating me out of retaliation.

One wondered why management (mainly TC2100) took part in terminated me keep misleading the fact that I was terminated due to “no one liked her; no one wanted her; etc” while I didn't know anyone and worked 24/7 as evidenced by my computer log time and my accomplishments; but true for many such as Michele Choi who was at the verge of termination all the time. They were not fired. Or “will be married soon with Bill” when Bill and Susanne Lo been dating for years and was known to many. We also see them together all the time and went home together all the time when I was there. They were talking about marriage. I only spoken to Bill a few times and still don't know his last name. Susanne Lo was not fired.

These management, mostly SPEs from GUI (patent class 715), heard from Michele Choi who went around saying “if Mona could do 3 cases per biweekGUI must be easy, I wanted to transfer into GUI too”.  When the GUI group heard this, one said “the jig is up”. The GUI group been enjoying as the top performer, they don't want this to change, so by pushing to fired me with low performance even though it was well known that I was already doing 3 cases per biweek and were COPA cases, in addition to an airtight first case; by fired me with low performance would certainly disputed that "GUI must be easy" as well ensure the continuation of bonuses. (It should be note that the whole "examining time" needs a complete overhaul such not being a sweatshop, as well management need to understand what it takes to do the job)

To terminated me, they had to have an excuse as I am not in their GUI group, which they conveniently use the defamation of “no one wanted her; no one liked her; etc” that's been instigated by Tuan Nguyen and his countrymen the first month on the job. Additionally, the GUI SPEs convinced other management Susanne Lo's boyfriend Bill and I were involved in a romantic relationship, with the helps of Bill's close associate Nathan Hillery – a Union Rep, my officemate Hung Havan, Susanne Lo, Dwin Craig my Primary who held a grudge against Bill for a reason I don't know, and Michele Choi who Dwin thought was my friend. Where Hung Havan also told them I am just like Michele Choi, who has been hated everywhere.

Susanne Lo's boyfriend Bill may have contributed to such beliefs to cover their affair to protect Susanne Lo from his enemy, as well to make her jealous; while his close associates Hung Havan, Nathan Hillery and Michele Choi, as well his girlfriend Susanne Lo and her friend from India had used this to get me fired. They called Bill their frenemy. Bill had helped all these people and their friends from being terminated; he had never helped me in any way or form. I am terminated with all my accomplishments.  If this Bill continue to involve me, it only means he and Susanne Lo are still dating and may have married. I had not seen Susanne Lo's boyfriend Bill since my termination August 10, 2011.

How did Michele Choi know I had done 3 cases per biweek? No one knew this except me, and I certainly didn't say anything and was still staying low key as I knew what Asians would do to a woman who could do a job better than the males, as they did to me when I was in the Silicon Valley where I had to abscond from due to physical harm threats by an Asian coworker and an Asian gang.  Hung Havan had been checking my progress, he knew my information as he and his cabal Nathan Hillery had shown me how to access my Production Performance around June 2011 when Wendy Gerber and Paul Rodrigues had our first meeting.  I asked Nathan Hillery(a Union Rep) what was the performance norm for probationary employees at their 6th month  evaluation?   Hung Havan also start defaming me after learning I was doing 3 cases per week in June, 2011.

Michele Choi also went around saying inflammatory things about what I said to my SPE she read from my Office Action, which sounds as if I was intransigent when it was just a disagreement.  I am not the only one she had said inflammatory things about, her Training academy classmates had been avoiding her as well.  

Michele Choi and Hung Havan used their smartphone to set me up to incite sexual harassment, abuses, termination, rape, and now the slit of my throat that almost killed me such this EEOC case would go away.  

Both Hung Havan and Michele Choi, amount many from Asia knew I hated being sexually harassed and deemed those who did as lowlife, as well I would reported them to the EEO. So to enforce the notion of I checked out Hung Havan as a way to further the sexual harassment and abuses toward me by lowlifes which I would report to the EEOC, he tried to set me up such I come across as if I was checking him up. For example, he would show me clips of his son on is smartphone placed on the desktop while he stood on the other end of the edge of the desk, someone such as his partner in crime Michele Choi would use her smartphone and recorded from afar as if I was checking Hung when he talked to me and I looked up, for the unsuspected simpleton eyes. Hung Havan and Michele Choi’s intention was to have every single lowlife to sexually harass and abuse me, a woman who is outperformed them, to finally get me terminated.

The slit of my throat happened on June 1, 2013, days before my Appeal deadline.  I was in the hospital for days.  Luckily, a friend helped me out and sent my Appeal in on time.  If I die, this EEOC case would go away.  I was specifically targeted.  I didn't know anyone in the DC metro, some of the people had shown such viciousness toward me are people from the Patent and Trademark Office such as Hung Havan, Nathan Hillery, Michele Choi, Susanne Lo and her friends from India, Tuan Nguyen and his countrymen.

And finally, if I am white, I wouldn't have been fired without any consideration.  Management knew that there's no ramification for their wrong doing to an Asian woman.  The whole system is rigged against minorities as evidenced by the ruling of the EEOC AJ Nancy Graham of New Orleans against me with overwhelming evidenced to support my case, and the "stand your ground killings", where murders such as Geroge Zimmerman  and Michael Dunn got away with murder just because the victims were 2 African - American kids.

Because of the defamation, particularly by Tuan Nguyen's countrymen of people from Asia, I've been subjected to sexual harassment, abuses, termination, not able to secure a job, physical harm, rape and now they also had slit my throat that was meant to kill me. Please help me to clear my name.

I was targeted in similar manner as soon as I arrived in the Silicon Valley /San Francisco Bay area in the 1990s, by people from Asia, who I had never met in my life; and had to abscond due to physical harm threats by an Asian coworker and an Asain gang.

 Not just the Asian transients have aversion toward 2nd generation Americanized Asians, but this is true for other recent immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, etc., toward their Americanized 2nd generation as well.  Some Middle East fathers honored killed their daughter because she was dating a White boy or wants to live a life of a typical American teenager.  Even my father had discouraged me from going to college and vehemently against me pursuing a PhD.

This is from speaking with immigrants from other parts of the world.  They all understood when I told them what happened to me as a 2nd generation Asian, and that the new immigrants from Asia had been attacking me.  Another word, this is well understood phenomena amount immigrants of that some new immigrants' aversion toward Americanized 2nd generation.  Most of them just want to make money here and move back to their homeland, a transient.

It is more pronounced in my case because there is such overwhelming recent Asian immigrants where Americans have little to no understanding of their 3rd world culture, and only a few 2nd or later generation of Asians in America; while people from Asia using Social Media from emails to mitbbs.com to spread their hate on their targets such as me.

The conflicts between the first generation immigrant and the Americanized 2nd generation has been going on since the late 1880s when Europeans were the mass immigrants, then followed by the Hispanic/Latino who my neighbor taught me the word "Americanized".  Asian is today's mass immigrants.