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Great point. The word "science" appears in the name of the field that I studied, yet I haven't seen any evidence that our current hiring processes in this fiel
by ken 8y ago
Great point. The word "science" appears in the name of the field that I studied, yet I haven't seen any evidence that our current hiring processes in this field are better than random (i.e., the null hypothesis).
If I made a software company who openly declared that their hiring process was purely random, would it work as a company? Would it be legal? For that matter, is a standard tech interview legally valid[1]? What if there is no known valid method?
[1]: https://www.hiresuccess.com/blog/facts-about-validation https://www.hiresuccess.com/blog/facts-about-validation
- amorphid 8y agoI'm imagining an overly academic interview question that goes something like this... "It's been determined that our CS interviews are both random and unscientific, and we'd like to reverse that trend. To give us more control of the outcome, and to help us be more science-y, how would you design a random number generator which can be made deterministic by giving it a seed value? We need one for our hiring process."