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		rsanek on May 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad ... Right, all the most valuable tech companies in the world have hiring practices that are "obviously wrong." I'm not saying they got so valuable because they're using this style of interview, but if it were so incredibly ineffective, how would they have become so successful?

mikymoothrowa on May 21, 2022 | [–]

Because this hiring process came _after_ they were already successful?

mountainriver on May 23, 2022 | [–]

Yeah they didn't start this way, with the exception of Google, its a recent invention... and now a cargo cult sped on by comments like this

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