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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by dilyevsky on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:06AM (#35037693)
Actually I remember Norvig saying that they found no such thing - scoring higher in interview panels did not correlate with performance on a job. The only positive correlation they found was gpa
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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by jfrbfbreudh on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:09AM (#35037995)
+1

If I remember correctly, it was actually slightly negativity correlated with work quality because extremely talented competitive programmers would smash the interviews but write competitive programming style code (aka not enterprise quality).[1]

1) https://catonmat.net/programming-competitions-work-performan...

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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by froh on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:27AM (#35038381)
no wait. this is about live competitions, not about job interviews.

the interview is about the interaction on a CS topic. how do you express yourself, verbally and in code? that's not: can you crank your the highest performance solution in the shortest amount of time.

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