[pkaye]

I don't have the source anymore but it was an article where they spoke to someone at Google HR who mentioned that a particular team was difficult to approve anyone or hiring. To prove their point, they anonymized the team's own resume and asked them to rate them.

[stuxnet79]

I saw a lecture (about tech interviews) by a former Google engineer who at the time was working at Etsy. He mentioned that the experiment was performed on him and his team. The hiring committe he was a part of had acquired a reputation of being particularly difficult to please. They ended up rejecting all of their own hiring packets. I was skeptical when I heard the story. Google must do a fantastic job anonymizing the hiring packets that get reviewed, or maybe they had been at Google for a long enough time that they forgot their own process and didn't clue in. However, this engineer did mention it so it doesn't seem to be an urban legend to me. With some clever searching I'm sure you can find the video.