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Charles Landau • Edited

If you wanted to give everyone the absolutely fairest chance you'd have them all interviewed by the same people, in the same room, at the same time of day, with no screening. Far too much time and effort, and even then you'd miss some great people.

I hope you mean you'd control for all those conditions but still do interviews separately. You'd miss a lot of great people with group interviews -- they're a terrible idea. Group interviews with no screening are worse.

  1. You walk into a room and say who has any experience with Framework? Everyone who doesn't raise their hand spent their afternoon and travel money to leave in the first minute.
  2. You have N minutes in front of this group. The most assertive loudmouth will get more minutes of your attention. Are loudmouths better devs?
  3. Accessibility?!?!?!
  4. Many developers completely withdraw from the application if you mention group interviews

I would make exceptions for positive discrimination, i.e. ensuring underrepresented minorities get through the first stage no matter what.

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David Wickes

I hope you mean you'd control for all those conditions but still do interviews separately.

I certainly do. I agree with your comments regarding group interviews.

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Care to elaborate?

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Charles Landau

I'm happy to elaborate.

I would make exceptions for positive discrimination, i.e. ensuring underrepresented minorities get through the first stage no matter what.

...is a very different attitude and approach from what I usually see. If you want an inclusive hiring process I think it's harder than just ensuring all the people from underrepresented groups skip one stage of the process, which is how I read this part of your comment. I'd be the first to say I'm not an expert but I certainly made the (???) face when I read that quote.

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David Wickes

If you want an inclusive hiring process I think it's harder than just ensuring all the people from underrepresented groups skip one stage of the proces

Can't argue with this - there's 1001 things that everyone can do to make the whole hiring process more equitable, and I'm not saying this is my silver bullet or anything. It's just something I'd consider doing.