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by Yessing 2334 days ago
if the best candidate you interviewed is a fraud:

- either the candidate was competent:

then why did he need to lie to get the job? maybe you're over-filtering based on resume and years of experience. The variable your looking for is competence. Years of experience, is just a proxy. if the proxy is drying up your supply, maybe it's not an effective one.

moreover, people are not born managers. why not give new talent a chance.

- the candidate was not competent:

The interview process is therefore broken and is not measuring competence. Maybe you're overvaluing confidence or the speed of answering. Maybe the questions are not Technical enough? I don't know. But notice that valuing anything that is irrelevant would lead to a lower expected value of candidate's competence.

Using ineffective tools while searching for something rare is unsurprisingly hard.

As a side comment, I'm kinda taken aback by the fact that interview results like "culture fit" are shared this way. I would've expected a higher standard of privacy. Is this commonly accepted?

Another point, I've noticed that the hiring process involved a lot of "friend / wife of a friend". Wouldn't this if left unchecked cause some ethnic/age-based bias ( not necessarily in a legal sense)?

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I think that "competent/not-competent" is a false dichotomy. The candidate could be exceptionally qualified technically and competent, but have significant ethical / integrity issues that are difficult to notice in an interview, for instance. So a technical interview may not catch that, but past references may.