18-year-old got hired as a Google engineer—his dad shares his No. 1 parenting rule: I take a ‘hands off approach’

Stanley Zhong isn’t your typical 18-year-old. He’s not your typical Google software engineer, either.

Zhong graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, earlier this year with a 4.42 weighted GPA, a 1590 SAT score and an e-signature startup called RabbitSign. He was also rejected or waitlisted from 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied for, including MIT and Stanford.