Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by GFischer on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:21PM
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The "find a reason to say no" can be very damaging as well if taken to the extreme.
I've seen people that were entirely qualified for the position be rejected at the company I work for because they made some totally understandable mistake - I'm talking about people that took the time off to take a 5-hour on-site coding assignment, and made a mistake but would have had a passing (and possibly good) grade on an academic evaluation.
And now we have 5 open positions and nobody hired for them.
False negatives are expected, and honestly probably good overall and in aggregate, because it decreases the odds of a false positive. One of my first bosses that involved me in the hiring process told me one day that the point of interviewing is not to find reasons to say yes, it's to find a reason to say no.