[omginternets]

This is of course a great way to interview, when you're only concerned about assessing competence. It seems to me, however, that assessing competence is one of several concerns that the interviewer is expected to balance.

In particular, HR is expected to structure the hiring process in such a way as to avoid accusations of bias. In order to achieve this, they are expected to come up with precise criteria for hiring, which is at odds with anything vaguely qualitative or holistic, let alone ecological.

The result is that we strictly rank-order candidates using hard measures. In doing so we sacrifice the ecological validity of the test.