[studer]

The post you're referring to is here:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg...

and the argument is that you should try to "only hire candidates who are above the mean of your current employees", rather than just hire people better than the worst you have.

I find the part where he talks about hiring for project vs. hiring for the company a bit more interesting.

[arethuza]

This comment is interesting:

"This model seems to assume that people don't change, or that they perform in an interview and hiring process in the exact same way that they will perform on an actual team with a variety of personalities and any kind of manager."