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Re:In Defence of the Technical Interview by x0x0 on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:17AM (#20201175)
In my experience hiring, the diligence to sit down and practice code tests correlates very highly with being a good employee. Just like strong academic achievement at good schools.

That's not to say there aren't gems in the rough who don't interview well, or skipped college, or who didn't go to good schools. But there's a huge time cost to looking for them.

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Re:In Defence of the Technical Interview by AstralStorm on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:12AM (#20201761)
Does it? Have you hired a lot of people via alternative route to have a valid comparison?

Perhaps it is a cost because your hitting practices are explicitly biased against finding such people, or salary is not competitive?

Time of HR guy doing the interview or a search is cheap compared to years of developer salary. Seriously.

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