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I think some of this applies to tech hiring as well. There's only so much accuracy a tech interview can have, yet so much weight is given to it. In the end one person who's rejected at Google may end up at Dropbox, and would all the interview hand-waving have been necessary? I'd love to see studies if more intensive interview processes actually produce better quality hires.


This is the real moral of this story.

How much of a person's effectiveness in a workforce is due to environmental factors, and how much is individual?

Now, for every factor you believe is individual, is there proof, or is it an assumption?

Now even further, for every factor you still believe is individual, can you imagine a system which would solve the problem in a generic way?

Given that, would an organization that assumed systemic solutions be more successful than one that assumes individual solutions?

The answer is yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming




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