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by rvz 2528 days ago
> "So despite companies investing 7 to 9 hours per person on interviewing, they miss out on great, capable talent by testing for memorization instead of practical application of skills."

I'm not sure if I agree with this, I can easily eliminate 80% of candidates by telling them to show me a project that is either in production or you have recent patches that are classed as significant to well-known open-source projects based on the technologies I require. That in itself raises the barrier to exclude candidates who fail this threshold.

I don't think that what Google's approach to technical hiring solves anything other than contributing to yet another way of screening candidates by implementing a side-project for free in 40 mins with it being tied to your Google account.

No thanks.