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Having worked for a startup that tried to fix this, a big problem is institutional inertia/too much deference to Chesterton’s fence. In general application for
by sarchertech 4y ago
Having worked for a startup that tried to fix this, a big problem is institutional inertia/too much deference to Chesterton’s fence.
In general application form questions have accumulated over the years. When you dig into why there are 95 questions, you’ll find that no one actually knows who added most of them. Or if they do know, that person is no longer with the company.
But “I’m sure each question is there for a good reason.” And no one wants to risk removing any of them.
- Root_Denied 4y agoIf you can't identify the value of a question then you can't adequately rate responses to that question. The "risk" of removing them is what, exactly? Unless you're feeding those responses into an ATS system that's doing some data correlation/massaging on the backend, in which case can you identify why the system things the question is important - if not, refer to first line.