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Comment by jaggederest

1 day ago

Once again, you're misunderstanding the goal of the system if you think that it's necessary to deliberately whittle down hundreds of good applicants through careful process to get a great hire.

Hint: you don't even need to evaluate most candidates at all. Random sampling is sufficient and provably bias free.

Reminds me of something I heard once.

> Whenever I get a stack of resumes, I throw half of them in the trash

> I sure don't want unlucky people on my team.

What do you send them as a response "sorry, we're going ahead with other applicants" - "you have not been selected this time" -- what happens if you start needing to dig through that pool of now rejected candidates?

Peak humanity.

  • > what happens if you start needing to dig through that pool of now rejected candidates?

    I acknowledge that I am reaching back out, and they may not be available.

    Like a human does.

    > Reminds me of something I heard once.

    >> Whenever I get a stack of resumes, I throw half of them in the trash

    >> I sure don't want unlucky people on my team.

    I was actually about to make the same joke.