[ng12]

https://business.stackoverflow.com/blog/how-hiring-has-an-ef...

Several citations in there, but it seems like a common sense thing to me. Why interview at all if you're so willing to take on the risk of a bad hire? Just take them out for lunch and ask them how they like coding.

It's also bad for recruiting purposes. If I have an easy interview I'll be reasonably assured that my future coworkers went through that same process -- what metric do I have to assume they're going to be good engineers to work with?

[danieltillett]

Ask how many people have been fired. I like to think the people I have are all very good because I fire all the bad ones. Much better to weed out because of on the job performance than select on the basis of some poor proxy for on the job performance.