I think you may be misconstruing the argument here. I agree that any number of people will fit -- but the problem is, what if interviews aren't even selecting "a" right person for the job?
> what if interviews aren't even selecting "a" right person for the job?
We know that interviews are selecting a right person some percentage of the time. That percentage will never be 0 or 100. We will always have to accept some bad hires.
I would rather that successful hire percentage be somewhat lower and keep the team engaged in defining culture and hiring standards than to give up team involvement for a higher right-person rate.
My main point is that the people studying this issue and arguing against the interview process tend to only look at less than half of the benefit of the interview process. If we're going to ditch the interview process, whatever replaces it needs to have the same property of involving the existing team or it is, to my mind, automatically worse than what we have now. Because while we're all aware of how flawed the interview process can be, it does work to some extent. When I was hiring, only 2 out of the 50 or so that I hired didn't work out. Would I like to have avoided hiring one or both of them? Sure. Am I willing to sacrifice the team involvement benefits to got to do so? Absolutely not.
We know that interviews are selecting a right person some percentage of the time. That percentage will never be 0 or 100. We will always have to accept some bad hires.
I would rather that successful hire percentage be somewhat lower and keep the team engaged in defining culture and hiring standards than to give up team involvement for a higher right-person rate.
My main point is that the people studying this issue and arguing against the interview process tend to only look at less than half of the benefit of the interview process. If we're going to ditch the interview process, whatever replaces it needs to have the same property of involving the existing team or it is, to my mind, automatically worse than what we have now. Because while we're all aware of how flawed the interview process can be, it does work to some extent. When I was hiring, only 2 out of the 50 or so that I hired didn't work out. Would I like to have avoided hiring one or both of them? Sure. Am I willing to sacrifice the team involvement benefits to got to do so? Absolutely not.