I agree and also prefer false negatives when I do interviews - the cost of having someone terrible join your team is much worse than the cost of missing out on

I agree and also prefer false negatives when I do interviews - the cost of having someone terrible join your team is much worse than the cost of missing out on the occasional good person. Of course there is a balance and if you're routinely turning away great candidates there's probably a problem with your interview process that should be checked out. I used 'flawed' in the sense that interviewing is a hard problem in general. Edit: Fixed