On: The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

[orless]

Google is definitely not a benchmark for interviews. From what I experienced, they must have a huge rate on false negatives. You can only afford this if you're Google (or that level).

[johan_larson → orless]

Yup, it was pretty common knowledge at Google that if you took all the engineers and ran them through the interview process again, it would have rejected most of them.

[ctdonath → orless]

The view is: better to lose a good candidate than to hire a bad one.