Laszlo Bock says he wasn’t qualified to be the head of people operations when Google hired him for the job in 2006.
“I was like 33, with three years of HR experience, and had never worked in the tech industry,” says Bock. “There were a lot of signals to suggest they should not have hired me.”
Bock even wrote a three-page memo describing why he was declining a job with what he saw as a “still pretty young and unproven” company but ultimately decided not to send it. Instead, he accepted the position.
