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by logicallee 3157 days ago
>If there was a way to evaluate a candidate based on how well they would do at their actual job, in an hour or less, that couldn’t be gamed or cheated, we’d all be using it.

Right, because there's currently a ten million dollar bounty up at way-to-evaluate-a-candidate-based-on-how-well-they-would-do-at-their-actual-job-in-an-hour-or-less-that-cant-be-gamed-or-cheated-bounty .com - which everyone knows about and has known about for decades, and checks regularly. The site can't be gamed and it's run as a public service. Literally within a day, and I mean a day, that anyone ever uses the winning method a single time, God himself will write up the method and submit it on the interviewer's behalf (invisible hand hypothesis), the site will judge it correctly and approve it (just world hypothesis), and the next day we'd all be using it. Oh also there's a genie that makes people use the winning entry I forgot to mention that, otherwise people might not all use it even once it's well-known.

I mean just consider the wildly implausible set of circumstances it would take for not everyone in the world to be using the best interview process in the world!

It's clear that it just doesn't exist. How could it?

/s

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Edit: someone didn't like this. Just imagine what method you suppose by which everyone would learn the perfect interview method from each other. If that method exists, why would everyone know it?