“Resilience” is a fairly meaningless term, but “curiosity, agility resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity” will more likely be punished than rewarded in for example, a typical technology company.

To put it another way, in the eyes of a hiring manager (maybe like Marissa):

Curiosity = Nosey
Agility = Flighty
Resourceful = Mean
Pattern Recongition = Conspiracist
Tenacity = Pushy

Now entrepreneurs need to know how to break rules and genuinely “think outside the box”, which is why a nosey, flighty, mean, pushy conspiracist will do fine as an entrepreneur, but not even get the time of day at many tech companies, including — it appears, Google.

In this respect, Marissa is actually bodyshopping for robots, not entrepreneurs, which is increasing evidence that Google has actually turned into Just Another Tech Company.

I imagine they’ll need a “We Think Outside The Box — Honestly” banner on their recruitment site soon!