How to hire engineering talent without the BS

Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by KerryJones on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:12AM (#35038012)

I really wish I had the reference, but I did the "paid trial" for a week for out interviewing process (startup, 40m evaluation) based on an article that said that standard tech interviews gave you an 18% predictability and that paid trials gave you about 72% (it was only one study).

I can tell you that at our company we definitely dodged candidates here and I was very happy with everyone we hired (but you could call that bias, as I was the hiring manager -- but I also worked withe veryone I hired)

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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by richthegeek on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:56AM (#35039242)

I can imagine that works fine for fresh-out-of-university candidates but I can't imagine a time in my career where I could (and would want to) take 5 days PTO for a job interview.

FAANG-like hiring has the question "What info do you get from the 5th interview that you didn't already have after the 2nd?" - for the paid trial, what info do you get by Friday that you didn't have by the end of Monday?

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Re:How to hire engineering talent without the BS by KerryJones on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:37PM (#35046475)

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