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> The weakness of this study is we didn't follow up with people. We only knew if our candidates got hired, not how well they did after they were in the door, as employees

I’m sorry, but then your study doesn’t show anything useful. Interviews are supposed to determine whether someone is going to be a good employee, not whether they are “desirable to a lot of companies.” So yeah, all you were doing was mirroring the bias of those companies’ processes. As a recruiting company, that can be good business, because you’re giving the customers what they want. But it’s not effective hiring practice for the customer.

Furthermore, you did not follow up on the people that were weeded out to see if they would have been good employees. Current hiring practices weed out a lot of people that could have provided a lot of value, but they weren’t able to perform the prescribed ritual on cue, you didn’t have a chance to evaluate whether that was a good decision or not.