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When I was at Google a long time ago, the hiring criteria were simple: Smart, and gets things done.

A lot of people are smart, but don't get much brilliant work done. Even more people do a lot of work, but aren't very smart about it.

To be a genius with important contributions, you need to have both the brains and the work ethic.



To be clear, if the quality and quantity of output of the hard worker exceeds someone who works hard and is smart about it, smart and hard would be preferable?


Right, the reason a certain demographic can't get hired right now is because they aren't smart or hard-working.




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