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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by UncleOxidant on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:38PM (#24843796)
I think a lot of us suspect that just choosing applicants randomly would probably have a very similar outcome to what we do now, but nobody wants to be the first to try it.
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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by stmw on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:18PM (#24844239)
The above statement is really just validation that the current process sucks so much for everyone that it's conceivable to replace it with random choice. However, it's not actually true (for reasons explained in the blog) - as a hiring manager, I am confident you couldn't ship "Hello world" by hiring randomly.
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