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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by swsieber on Sunday March 05, 2023 @09:53PM (#35037001)
I'd prefer switching metrics every decade to never having a good hiring system.
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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by throwaway6734 on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:58AM (#35039983)
or introduce some level of randomness to dull the effect of the metrics
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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by chiefalchemist on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:49AM (#35041648)
Introduce randomness to see if there are other metrics that might be signals worth considering.
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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by yifanl on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:34AM (#35042220)
"We only want to hire lucky people, so our hiring council only looked at your resume if everyone flipped a coin and all landed heads"
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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by idontwantthis on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:41AM (#35043113)
It worked on Ringworld.
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