> risks throwing the baby out with the bath water
If one has an excess of qualified candidates, this isn't an issue. Wasting too much time on the decision becomes the biggest risk.
If one has an excess of qualified candidates, this isn't an issue. Wasting too much time on the decision becomes the biggest risk.
After all if you have enough candidates, you can choose to only hire clones if the founders. And completely miss out on the benefits of diverse experiences bringing out creativity.
Google is well known, as are many other companies, to have the upper echelons of engineering filled with Stanford grads (and faculty), with their idea of diversity being the occasional Berkeley faculty member that's well liked there. (other companies, of course, have different universities they do this with, although Stanford certainly seems to have more than it's fair share)
So on the plus side, it's not racist. On the down side ...
Or you could choose to hire people who aren't clones. It's not like you're stuck with Hobb's Choice when you have a glut of options