Re:So I refused a white board technical test and was asked t...
by exclusiv on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:29PM
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I think what they wrote is an indicator that they know something about hiring.
I've been on both sides and the key lessons the parent laid out are good. They're related more to being a professional in interviewing and whiteboards, not key lessons to ensure you hire the best people available which is what you are discussing.
To really learn about hiring, you'd have to interview those people and find out how well they do, but also how well the rejected applicants do. You can't test your assumptions if you can't compare the people you hire with the people you didn't.
And, for the record, I (and several of my colleagues) have interviewed almost 100 people each over the course of our careers -- more than 10 per year. We still don't have a secret sauce. Some filters work and some don't. Google has been famously working on this problem using extensive data analysis, and they still haven't cracked the secret of always hiring the best coders.