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by aiiane 4471 days ago
Randomness is a factor whenever you have social interaction; as it turns out, people are subjective to the core. Trying to gauge someone's ability to deliver results is educated guesswork at best. You can only be so objective about it; there's going to be some measure of variance.

Google errs on the side of rejection because one bad hire has a much bigger impact than one good hire.