[halfcat]

> Do I also need to say "can eat with cutlery"?

Only if it’s a core part of the job (it wasn’t in our case, we were fine if the candidate eats with their hands).

You're right, we will absolutely filter out a lot of good people. We aren’t trying to find the best, and it’s not obvious that if we did read through every application in detail that it would result in a better outcome, because it would take significantly longer and good applicants will have had other offers by then.

[anonify8]

Thanks. There has to be a better way. At risk of sounding cliche an LLM could probably do a better job. If yiu ask if the person probably knows SQL and they talk about setting up a postgres cluster... a natutal language model might score them as very likely and you keep em in. Maybe that wasnt available at the time.

Otherwise screen with a 5 to 10 minute quiz. Which also would probably encur the wrath of a HN snark from someone else but I accept these sorts of thing as a necessary evil and fair modulo creating more work for busy people.