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> worker surplus and job scarcity I'm convinced that's the only reason why processes at places like google aren't considered completely broken.

• zaphar 10y ago
  Google, Facebook, Amazon are all a different category than most other companies that are hiring software developers. They care a lot less about false negatives because their hiring pool is so large. They are prestigious places that a lot of people really want to work at. As a result they have more candidates than they can reasonably get through without some massive filtering. Some of that filtering, whether intentional or not, is how rigorous the interview process is. They can afford to be that rigorous though because the fact is that even if they miss out on one really good candidate there are 10 or more replacements in the pipeline. The same does not apply for smaller companies with less engineering centric workplaces. If they try to do it Google's way they'll be shooting themselves in the foot.