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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:14AM (#20948531)
Can you show me a double-blind controlled trial of companies that interviewed only CS grads vs anyone? I'm pretty sure such a study does not exist. So I'm pretty sure you can't make claims like that with any confidence.

There is MOUNTAINS of research at Google which cannot be shared externally that shows -- despite all of our efforts -- we are hardly better at selecting candidates through interviews than flipping a coin.

There's also a ton of research by Amos Tversky at the Israeli Air Force that suggests similarly. That's where Google got the idea to try to measure this, and how we got our "strange" interview process.

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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by scarface74 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:19PM (#20955280)
Guess what? Not every company needs smart people(tm). The level of complexity of software at Google is completely different than your standard enterprise developer - the jobs most people have.
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