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I think you can tell if it's a good system for your company. As an individual employer all I care about are: 1. are my false positives low? 2. is the time it
by Hermitian909 7y ago
I think you can tell if it's a good system for your company. As an individual employer all I care about are:
1. are my false positives low?
2. is the time it takes to fill a position low?
If the answer to both of those questions is "yes" then the system is great for me (and I've seen the system described above provide affirmative answers to both these questions in a startup setting).
Determining whether a hiring system is locally good is significantly easier than determining if it's good in general.
- okaram 7y agoYou can say if it's acceptable ... but not necessarily good The problem is that you don't know the cost of the false negatives; you don't know whether the people you didn't hire would have greatly improved your processes / code / business
- hinkley 7y agoSoftware is a collaboration. Almost by definition, all the stuff I don’t know how to do well is at least as important as the stuff I do, even as full stack person. It’s probably not the stuff you know how to do that makes or breaks your company. Either someone else does it, or you “figure it out” and hopefully you know if you did it right before it’s too late. How do you hire someone to be good at stuff you aren’t already good at? There’s gonna be a lot of those in the false negatives pile.