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What you said doesn't contradict what I said.
by kurtreed 4y ago
What you said doesn't contradict what I said.
- uup 4y agoRead the definitions of recall and precision. Interviews focus on precision at the expense of recall. That doesn’t mean interviews don’t evaluate competency. It’s just that not every competent candidate can pass.
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- kurtreed 4y agoWell I meant interviews don’t perfectly evaluate competency, there's certainly a correlation. Oh, and "read" the HN Guidelines.
- uup 4y ago> The fact that a service exists to make you better at interviews implies that interviews don't evaluate competency. If interviews evaluated competency The only interpretation of this statement I can’t think of is “interviews do not measure competency.” That’s not true. They do, but the bias for high precision instead of high recall. That is, it’s better to pass on a competent person than to hire an incompetent one. Regarding the guidelines, I’m not sure what you mean. One of the guidelines is to assume good faith, however.
- jldugger 4y agoBut it does kind of explain why an employer might pay them to offer candidates mock interviews -- it makes the not-mock more predictive.