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by mentatseb 3775 days ago
The conclusion is misleading due to 2 wrong assumptions:

1. The population is heterogeneous: interviews test different skills. All interviews don't test the same set of skills, which is mandatory to compare interview scores because scores are aggregates of these skill tests. Different job opportunities means different skills to test, so it seems reasonable to assume that people evaluation vary for different job opportunities, and thus their scores vary for different interviews.

2. The observations are not statistically independent: past interviews may influence future interviews. People may get better at passing interviews or conducting interviews over time. This would impact their score. It would be good to study the evolution of individual scores over time.

While (1) should strongly limit the conclusions of the study, the complete analysis may simply be irrelevant because of (2) if the statistical independence of observations is not demonstrated. Sorry guys but this is Statistics 101 introductory course.

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(1) We listened to most interviews on the platform to establish homogeneity. Interviews were across the board, language agnostic, and primarily algorithmic in nature.

(2) We actually looked into this and noticed that time didn't really affect performance. Usually, people did their interviews over a pretty short time span and then found a job. Or, people were already experienced interviewers and had kind of hit a plateau. You can see the raw data and how it oscillates wrt time in the footnotes.