<i>"CV's (people lie) and reference checks (everyone knows 2 people they like) "</i><p>Marissa Meyer was asked on the Charlie Rose show about Google's hiring process, and she answered that they had done the numbers and the only correlation there was between the hiring process and how well new employees worked out was their CV. People that had prior experience in the area they were hired for did better than people who didn't. Except for that there were no significant correlations to be found.<p>I believe Marissa Meyer over Zaki Mahomed(the author of the article)