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Re:What's going on here, with this human? by ekianjo on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:00AM (#26991230)
> As the gaming company Valve puts it: “Hiring well is the most important thing in the universe.”

Nope, Hiring is basically almost random no matter how much energy or tests you put in it, you can never know someone well until you actually work with them on a daily basis.

Re:What's going on here, with this human? by mdorazio on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:57AM (#26991886)
Partially agree. A good hiring process can boost your odds of finding the “right” people, but my personal experience has been that firing well is at least as important as hiring well. Firing well is also something that most companies do very poorly.
Re:What's going on here, with this human? by whatever_dude on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:03AM (#26992330)
This. It's extremely difficult to hire well, because no one knows what that even is. Firing well is somewhat easier because almost everybody knows who must be fired, but taking action is the difficult part.
Re:What's going on here, with this human? by ItsMonkk on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:07PM (#26997868)
It seems rather obvious to me that most hiring should be done at the intern/contractor level, where the interview process is extremely basic and let's most people through. Can you do a single basic level hackerrank question? Welcome aboard. Pushing for harder and harder questions simply doesn't accomplish anything real.

Once proven that a candidate is able to learn and adapt to the job, they should be moved to a full-time position, with pay above what is currently being given to that role. If they aren't excellent, let them go. As a company you want to advertise this promotion experience so that people who know they will pass this test will feel more comfortable signing up for a "lowly" temp position.

The top 5% or so of candidates might not take that offer, but you can leave a hole for exceptional candidates based on past experiences and proven success.

Re:What's going on here, with this human? by k__ on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:17AM (#26992447)
Isn't figuring out people just something you can learn?

The problem I usually see with most people is, they think they already learned it.

Many people I met thought they had good knowledge of human nature, even the ones who were failing constantly in different parts of their life. Even the ones who where obviously hanging out with toxic people all the time.

Everyone thinks, even if they don't know much, at least they know that, but I think it's one of the hardest things to know and nobody really puts in real work to get good at it.

Re:What's going on here, with this human? by analog31 on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:18AM (#26993034)
I'm struck by the analogy to investing. If asked to pick from among several stocks, there is doubtlessly the one great stock that will make you rich. Yet as a whole, stock pickers under-perform market averages. "The rest of us" are better off buying index funds.

Another problem with hiring is that in reality people will be flexible and adapt to the traits of a new person in their group, if that person has something valuable to offer.

Re:What's going on here, with this human? by tall on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:08AM (#26991613)
Bingo