WHEN the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt in a rental in South Pasadena, Calif., while he taught himself programming. He had been an average student in high school and hadn't bothered with college, but someone, somewhere out there in the cloud, thought that he might be brilliant, or at least a diamond in the rough. That someone was Luca Bonmassar <http://www.gild.com/company/our-team/co-founders/>. He had discovered Mr. Dominguez by using a technology that raises important questions about how people are recruited and hired, and whether great talent is being overlooked along the way. The concept is to focus less than recruiters might on traditional talent markers --- a degree from M.I.T., a previous job at Google, a recommendation from a friend or colleague --- and more on simple notions: How well does the person perform? What can the person do? And can it be quantified? continua qui http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/technology/how-big-data-is-playing-recruit... qgl