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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. Cultural interviews and using the “beer test” is great if you want to hire people for no other reason than they are similar to you.

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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. Cultural interviews and using the “beer test” is great if you want to hire people for no other reason than they are similar to you.