On: Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative

[karmakurtisaani]

This used to be a pretty standard discussion a few years back when people still were being hired. I never saw any better way to systematically and somewhat fairly test a large number of candidates, so would you kindly elaborate on that statement?

[nsxwolf → karmakurtisaani]

This always reads like an admission - “Well of course it’s bad, but how else am I supposed to interview at mass scale?”

Why would you test a large number of candidates in the first place?

[karmakurtisaani → nsxwolf]

In a way it is this admission. Interviewing is a very difficult process to get right.

> Why would you test a large number of candidates in the first place?

How else do you do it for a company of the size of Google or Amazon?

[eru → karmakurtisaani]

See https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ for some ideas.