# Here’s why you only have a 0.2% chance of getting hired at Google

<http://qz.com/285001/heres-why-you-only-have-a-0-2-chance-of-getting-hired-at-google/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Google gets around 3 million applications a year now, according to HR head Laszlo Bock, and hires 7,000. That means only one in 428 applicants end up with a job, making it far more selective than institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. Those are pretty thin odds, but when Bock joined in 2006 from General Electric, Google's hiring process was...

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