[TheSpiceIsLife]

> assessing whether someone will be a good employee for the next few years based on a few short meetings is really hard

Predicting the future is very difficult, and therefore probably not what interviews are designed to optimise for.

Interviews probably optimise for something like: The candidate seemed like a reasonable choice at the time / cover-your-arse scenario.

[wutbrodo]

Predicting the future is what you're trying to do when hiring, for which interviews are a specific tool.