[mirekrusin]

Or get two candidates and ask them to ask each other questions. Ask them to score themselves and "opponent". Infer score yourself. Promote winner to next level to interview other winners, until final battle. Brutal, but what can you do when you're not technical?

[Loughla]

Jesus Christ. Somewhere a hiring manager is explaining the benefits of this to human resources.

Step 1 - regular interviews.

Step 2 - group interviews including memory check with coding task

Step 3 - this thunderdome you just created.

[WrtCdEvrydy]

We never did group interviews but did try panel interviews as we noticed the order of interviews ended up skewing how we felt about a candidate.

[tcbasche]

You joke, but an interview for a Australian government agency I did (can't name it for fear of assassination) I was asked by interviewers which other candidates in the group interview I would work with and why. They were not at all technical.

[downerending]

Ha. If I got paired with some loser by a manager that pulled this, I'd make sure that said loser got the job.

[AnimalMuppet]

Devious, but delicious. The punishment fits the crime.