[andybak]

> I worked in a part of Google where domain specific knowledge was key, and it was next to impossible to hire people because nobody on our team could interview them "officially".

When a company policy is so obviously broken in this way and there is no way to route around it then something is very broken.

Here's how it should work. You explain the issue above to someone above you and they either have the authority to get round it or they pass it on to someone who does.

If a policy is failing in such a profound way and nobody can change it this implies a level of organisational dysfunction that must be affecting multiple aspects of the company.

[drewg123]

One way to route around it is to acquire a company with the needed expertise. However, it needs to be a large-ish company. There is some cutoff beyond which engineers from acquired companies do not need to re-interview for their jobs. It is somewhere between 10 person startup and Motorola, but I have no idea where.

I don't think a way to route around it for an individual position or candidate exists.