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100%, the future of tech hiring needs to be more data based and less “this is my kind of person” based. This is why prestigious companies have hiring committees

• sarchertech 4y ago
  Prestigious companies have hiring committees and tons of hoops to jump through because they are optimizing for the lowest number of false positives. They can do this because their prestige ensures a near limitless supply of candidates willing to jump through those hoops.
• switchbak 4y ago
  I strongly disagree based on my experience. I've worked at a place that had a very honed process for (supposedly) removing bias in interviews. At the end of the day we just pretended to removed bias, I'm not even sure that's possible with human beings. People hear what they hear, and you can't control for the layer of projection and filtering one will do during an interview. At it's best we tended to reject too many great candidates because our rubrics were so rigid, and it didn't let us make room for folks that were clearly amazing but didn't answer the questions in just the right way. Seriously, the talent we passed over was truly world class. There's a lot to be said for all of the non-verbal and subtle information that's conveyed in an interview. I think that throwing that all away is foolish because you're not really doing much better at removing the bias anyway.
• Alex3917 4y ago
  > This is why prestigious companies have hiring committees and have well honed processes. Wouldn't it make more sense to consider the fastest growing companies, or perhaps the subset of fast growing companies with the most profit per employee?