Re:Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring
by Ntrails on Friday July 15, 2016 @11:01AM
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>Enough for what? Why not?
Let me throw out some made up numbers as an example.
Company X hires 100 people out of 500 applicants.
If only 30% of them perform well, you might argue the interview process is rubbish.
However, if you can test and show that of the "un-hired" 400 only 5% would perform well, then clearly the interview process is better than picking at random.
This is why just looking at hired performance is not indicative of whether the process works - because the task was not just to predict good performers but to predict a better rate of good performers than a random sample of applicants.
Let me throw out some made up numbers as an example.
Company X hires 100 people out of 500 applicants.
If only 30% of them perform well, you might argue the interview process is rubbish.
However, if you can test and show that of the "un-hired" 400 only 5% would perform well, then clearly the interview process is better than picking at random.
This is why just looking at hired performance is not indicative of whether the process works - because the task was not just to predict good performers but to predict a better rate of good performers than a random sample of applicants.