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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by wpietri on Sunday April 09, 2017 @04:57PM (#14074325)
Only if you use a small, static body of questions. But there's nothing wrong with, say, each interviewer coming up with a couple of questions and rotating it them in a while.

You do want to try out the question and criteria before depending on it too much, but it's easy enough to try it out on a colleague.

Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by tptacek on Sunday April 09, 2017 @06:29PM (#14074680)
Among the many things wrong with this approach is the fact that you aren't generating a body of questions and responses that you can evaluate against your choices and the resulting performance of candidates you hire, making it impossible to effectively iterate.
Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by wpietri on Sunday April 09, 2017 @08:39PM (#14075159)
Depends on how you think of the interview process. The theory at work here is that if you get a number of domain experts to give an independent evaluation of a candidate and then compare notes, you'll get a decent outcome. Requiring them to use a structured, repeated question with a formal scoring rubric is to subtract certain sorts of bias from each individual evaluation. When hiring somebody doesn't work out, you go back and work on the interviewers and their interviewing skills, not the questions themselves.

I take it you're working from a different theory, where you try to put the expertise in a machinery of questions and answers, relying less (or not at all) on the interviewers themselves. I think that's also a valid approach, one with different limitations.

Personally, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm not a big fan of interview questions anymore period. If I want to know if somebody can do the work, now I try to create situations where they just do the work. But if one is trapped in the dominant tech interview paradigm, I personally favor investing in interviewers more than the questions themselves.