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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by irq11 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @05:06PM (#20709670)
It’s because everyone is copying Google.

FAANG companies have this problem: when you hire thousands of people a year, a higher false-positive rate is a big deal.

When you are startupbro.com, you don’t have this problem, but you’re desperately cargo-culting your way to success, and doing anything in a way that goes against the grain causes the other bros to accuse you of “bad signaling”.

See also: why tech companies cram together in San Francisco.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by astura on Friday August 16, 2019 @07:32AM (#20714081)
>when you hire thousands of people a year, a higher false-positive rate is a big deal.

My friend's employer is currently hiring thousands of people a year with a single interview lasting 1-2 hours without problems. Some highly technical and some manual laborers.

Then do this by putting new employees on a probationary period for the first six months. Many of their employees are union, and it still works out, the unions agree to this arrangement.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by suzzer99 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:48PM (#20710460)
Couldn't agree more. Almost every startup in LA I interviewed with seemed to suffer from some sort of imposter syndrome. Even a hint of a question about their technology choices or their business model and they look at you like you just ran over their dog. HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE GREAT AND WISE WIZARD?!??
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