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Re:We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the be... by leeny on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:10PM (#30868787)
Author here. We didn't publish a histogram showing how many users we have from each company, so I guess you'll have to trust me on this one. Dropbox has waaaay fewer engineers on interviewing.io per capita than some of the other companies... many of whom didn't make the top ten list.

In our experience, they're quite good at retaining talent.

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Re:We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the be... by horsawlarway on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:18PM (#30868919)
Doesn't this exact comment undercut your results fairly heavily?

You're admitting that it's much more likely dropbox is a statistical anomaly because of fewer data points, rather than a robust data set.

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Re:We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the be... by leeny on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:22PM (#30869001)
it's possible. we did see statistical significance when comparing dropbox to others despite the relatively smaller sample size. but yes, that is possible.
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Re:We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the be... by dtashima on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:54PM (#30869473)
Maybe add error bars to give it a little more color?
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