Comment by HarHarVeryFunny

That certainly makes sense as a goal, given the cost of hiring someone bad and then not being able to get rid of them.

The problem is that companies like Google that have evaluated their own hiring process, by comparing candidates "hiring score" with subsequent on-the-job performance, have found that there is little correlation. So, while the goal (be more concerned about false positives than false negatives) makes sense, their process of trying to achieve this is broken.