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How should we be selecting our graduate students? - previous research experience and subjectiev GRE (not standard GRE & GPA) are the best predictor?

In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/how-to-hire-a-programmer.html
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How to Get a Job at Google

(...) 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. (...)

The second, he added, “is leadership — in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership. (...) 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?

(...) 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. (...)

The least important attribute they look for is “expertise.”