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by jjav 1185 days ago
> to avoid the risk of a bad hire

But the silly thing it, the convoluted interviews don't avoid the risk of a bad hire because they test for the wrong things.

The analogy I use is that it's like a hospital trying to hire a heart surgeon by extensively grilling candidates on trick questions about organic chemistry. I mean sure, the surgeons probably took that class a few decades ago prior to medical school. So they end up with surgeons that are wizards in organic chemistry but might well not know how to use a scalpel or know where the heart is.