[vinceguidry]

Interviews happen at scale, dating doesn't. Once you find someone, the getting-to-know-you period before marriage is months / years of one-on-one time where you really can get to know them.

It's not the unstructuredness or the judging humans part that's the problem, it's the fact that this is all done at scale by people with more important things to be doing.

If companies all did like Apple in the early days and treated every hire as a bet-the-company decision, bad hires would go away.

[johan_larson]

Maybe the answer then is to push the decision down to someone for whom the hiring is a big decision, and who does not have to work at scale. An individual group manager has a lot of incentive to make a good hiring decision if the person being hired will be working in his group. And the manager does not have to hire so many people that he needs to consider it a large-scale project and adopt corresponding expediencies. Things can remain personal.

And if the organization for some reason needs to work at scale, add an initial lightweight sanity-checking and routing to the correct group. But keep the main hiring decision with the group the engineer would be working in.