[aeronaute]

I bet they have spent a lot of money on it. How about those folks at Google that, when they were unknowingly reviewing their own packets from when they originally interviewed, decided that they wouldn't even hire themselves?

Google also found that interview performance isn't a good predictor of on-the-job performance.

Sorry, but it's hard to take this style of interview seriously after hearing about these things.

[mehrdada]

> Google also found that interview performance isn't a good predictor of on-the-job performance.

People repeat things like this without really understanding statistics and priors and what that assertion really means. Assuming that statement is true, it applies only to Googlers who have been hired by the hiring process, i.e. if you are beyond the cutoff threshold of the interview process, the ranking within that subset is not determined by the interview performance. That in no way implies that among all the interviewees, including the rejects, the job performance would not have been correlated with their interview performance, had they been hired, hypothetically.