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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Erik Bernhardsson

When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. So we can choose to spend one hour on system design, one hour on algorithms, etc. System design. I like system design questions (“how would you build this feature”). I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life.

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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Erik Bernhardsson

When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. So we can choose to spend one hour on system design, one hour on algorithms, etc. System design. I like system design questions (“how would you build this feature”). I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life.