Re:Job interviews that go too far
by mattcwilson on Monday May 16, 2022 @09:26AM
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In my experience, just having a degree at all (in CS, Eng, IT/MIS, but even math, music, languages) isn’t a terribly strong predictor within the field. It’s mostly used, by those who do, again ime, to filter out against lack of commitment/perseverance/grit.
Personally I feel I get much more signal talking to people about their particular passions, accomplishments, struggles, and ideas.
Does it though? Has anyone done any form of analysis to show it works? I know my boss a few years back asked about asking technical questions and HR said we had to run a real scientific experiment to prove it works, basically a round of technical interviews, but the technical interviewers write down a score but are not invited to the actual decision process, then after 6 months we open the score and see if it correlates at all to on the job performance. When we interview there is a set of questions we are allowed to ask/score on (HR says they have run the data to prove those results make a difference)
Most companies could get just as good results if they put all resumes in a box and do a random drawing to figure out who to hire.