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Discussion on: Debugging the Technical Interview. Methods and Cheating

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Shai Almog

I was lucky enough to have some great influences and some bad ones when I started out. This helped shape my perspective on what I should and shouldn't do when hiring. I also got this wrong a lot, before getting it right.

It's a process and often arrogance of various types is a step in that process.

I try to hire "good people". In the sense of people I like. I can't think of a time where that approach failed me. I did fail when I ignored instinct and focused on "metrics". Big companies can't really work that way, they need clearly defined reproducible processes. Startups have the advantage here and can get the better cohesion that comes with that.