[yieldcrv]

Everyone knows why the companies think they need to do it this way.

“False negatives better than false positives”

“Need general set of skills”

That has nothing to do with their implementation being wrong and batshit crazy.

How about they go back to the whiteboard and think of something else.

[kamaal]

>>“False negatives better than false positives”

Nice idea, but doesn't work with underlying constraints. Nobody has infinite time and resources to interview and hire people. What that means is the more 'False Negatives' you do, less resources you have to hire 'True Positives'. Not just this, at this point you are inevitably likely to hire more 'False Positives' than 'True Positives'.

In fact the stated strategy seems to work, if and only if you are hiring 1 - 2 candidates for some very special positions. Otherwise its a bad strategy.