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> Also I guess about 70% of (pre-qualified) candidates would outright fail the question

This is probably right. Companies still use these questions, though, because they do a good job failing candidates who are not technical enough for the role.

What you're essentially doing is filtering out bad candidates and selecting from good ones based on luck.




In other words, the companies are optmizing for precision, rather than recall, which makes sense.


I've done a lot of interviewing and participated in a lot of hiring decisions at a very large tech company.

I think our process is guided far more by tradition than deliberate optimization for anything in particular. :)




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