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"Our hire rate out of trial week is around 66%, which feels like the right level." 66% seems quite low for that kind of arrangement, enough to be discouraged f

• tptacek 13y ago
  Ouch.
• drusenko 13y ago
  You'd be surprised the reasons it doesn't work out though. It's almost never intelligence. It's usually that someone was a huge dick, or was really lazy. It's just so strange to me that you couldn't keep your inner asshole at bay for one week, but better to know sooner than later.
  • annnnd 13y ago
    To play a devil's advocate: it might be better if you DON'T "keep your inner asshole at bay for one week". If those people didn't like the way they were, they would have changed themselves already anyway. On the other hand, pretending to be something they are not just gets them to places where they are not appreciated for what they are - so why would someone want to do that? The point is, evaluation works both ways. Did they fail your test or did you fail theirs? :) Nice point of view though, thanks for sharing!
    • jonahx 13y ago
      I don't see why that's playing devil's advocate. This is exactly the point of the program, and arguably its most important use case. Whether you frame the failure as "we didn't hire him because he's an asshole" or as (from his pov) "i just couldn't stop myself being a dick, their company culture was annoying" -- the employer has achieved his intended outcome, which is to filter out bad fits for the company.