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Anecdotally, we switched up our process some in an attempt to be able to hire faster (mostly by avoiding false negatives). It used to be standard whiteboard st
by thedufer 11y ago
Anecdotally, we switched up our process some in an attempt to be able to hire faster (mostly by avoiding false negatives). It used to be standard whiteboard style; we switched to a mix of that and more real-work style interviews. False positives went up pretty significantly, and even after shedding those the general quality was of hires was a bit lower.
- Alyoshi 11y agoHow long did you keep the new practices before reverting? Any company making this change could run into the issue of interviewers being well practiced at getting meaningful information out of whiteboard interviews and inexperienced at getting meaningful information out of real-work style interviews. Additionally, hiring successful whiteboard interviewees may actually select for people who are better at getting meaningful information out of whiteboard interviews and in turn perpetuate the relative effectiveness of solutions that are less effective in absolute. Which would bring us back to the problem being one of company culture. And this is a case where it is particularly expensive to fix it.
- thedufer 11y agoWe didn't revert. I've since left, but they're still using the newer method. I believe the decrease in time to fill positions was determined to be worth the decrease in quality. It's been over a year - maybe 2.