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Re:Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers by jemfinch on Thursday January 05, 2012 @08:06PM (#3431433)
> However, this doesn't highlight good engineers.

It's not intended to. It's highlighting bad engineers, not good ones. It's a negative filter, not a positive one.

> We don't even know how to measure properly if a hire was good or not.

Your company doesn't do performance reviews for employees?

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Re:Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers by bad_user on Thursday January 05, 2012 @08:38PM (#3431522)
> Your company doesn't do performance reviews for employees?

Every performance review I ever attended was a bad joke, for the same reasons companies have problems filtering between candidates.

Seriously, if there's a problem with the hiring process (it was just an example btw, I'm not saying there is one at your company), then why do you think performance reviews work out well?

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