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Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score by megy on Monday November 13, 2017 @06:16PM (#15691173)
> This is one reason why most interviewing is a subjective clusterfuck (not just software, I suspect).

This is the thing, all OTHER interviewing doesn't do this, they do it by talking to the candidates. Damn, I am going to get out of development.

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Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score by pseudonom- on Monday November 13, 2017 @06:45PM (#15691323)
FYI, most evidence suggests unstructured interviews (talking to the candidates) have very low predictive power about job performance and that work sample tests (take home problems and on-site coding) fare much better in that regard.
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Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score by Redsquare on Monday November 13, 2017 @07:14PM (#15691473)
Where is the evidence?
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Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score by pseudonom- on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:49AM (#15693639)
Table 1 here: http://www.flume.com.br/pdf/Scmidt_The_validity_and_utility....
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