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Google accepts a high false-negative rate in interviews, turning away qualified people, because that is considered better than sometimes hiring unqualified ones.

Drawn from what Steve Yegge said

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hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

How should software engineers be interviewed?under our view: The interview loop is noisy and biased, and rejects good people almost at random

What Steve Yegge actually said

  1. Steve Yegge Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google
    The thing is, Google has a well-known false negative rate, which means we sometimes turn away qualified people, because that's considered better than sometimes hiring unqualified people.

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