- What's your hit rate? (Detected an actual bullshitter)
All of them, I definitely had a few bad hires, but never due to underestimating capability, also most of them were from the early days.
- What's your false alarm rate? (Labelled someone a bullshitter who wasn't)
I see no way to come up with any good number for that, but I think at ~10% hiring rate from the interview I'd call myself pretty average from a perspective of selectiveness at that part in the funnel.
> This is again pretty easy to BS.
This is not the point of the question, I could care less whether 10% are slightly beautified. My focus with this questions and the follow ups are whether candidates can reproduce insights, learnings, hacks and fulfillment of business objectives in a logical and coherent way. If the story is fabricated, it usually falls apart when I ask "why" and "how did you actually do it?"
It's hard to fake expert knowledge about the stability of current sources when I drill down on the details of a candidates' recent Arduino project.
It's almost as if you have absolutely no clue how good you actually are at catching bullshitters.
That means they supported their conclusion where they made one, and refrained from a definite conclusion where they couldn't make one.
Actually, it's worse. The claimed 100% hit rate implies classifying everybody as a bullshitter.
This is again pretty easy to BS. Most people aren't going to completely make something up. Rather, they'll tell a 10% lie where they make up the most critical bits, then fill the rest with "truthful" content based on how things actually work on their company.
Let me turn the tables:
- What's your hit rate? (Detected an actual bullshitter) - What's your false alarm rate? (Labelled someone a bullshitter who wasn't) - How did you arrive at these numbers?