Re:The technical interview practice gap
by jonathankoren on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @06:54PM
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That's gatekeeping logic.
Most every company I know would love to exploit any high-conversion, high-quality pocket of candidates.
If companies are passing on specific pockets, it’s likely from a belief that the conversion from top of funnel to successful hire is low.
Re:The technical interview practice gap
by jonathankoren on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @11:53PM
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Companies don’t examine their efforts. They copy off of each other. How many processes are simply aped with the excuse, “Well, BigCo does this, so it must be right”?
There’s plenty of excuses for gatekeeping, but the real reason is laziness. Of course, we don’t call it that, we call it a meritocracy and apply our biases as “common knowledge”, “proven”, or if we’re feeling particularly full of ourselves, a “sufficient statistic”, but never what it is: a bias, a blanket assumption, a gate.
As soon as you’re relying on assumptions, it’s not a meritocracy. It’s bias promotion, ie gatekeeping.
At some point there's a signal to noise ratio issue here as well.