News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ask HN: Who is firing? by abraae on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:52PM (#12860742)
If I had a dollar for every time someone said "why don't we hire like Google does"?

Answer: Google can do what they do because of their scale, culture, systems, access to pots of money etc.

Google are Google. The rest of us are not and can't calibrate our hiring process to turn up only false negatives. We'd never hire anyone.

Re:Ask HN: Who is firing? by jknoepfler on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:30AM (#12861814)
I agree, it's not a feasible strategy for most companies. It's not even that innovative, it's just repeating a test with a high error rate repeatedly. This doesn't reduce error, but it does change the type of errors they make. I think that's pretty interesting. (From speaking with co-workers, it also damages Google's image considerably and reduces the probability that people will spend time and energy applying there; the their applicant pool seems large enough anyway).