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I guess we could make some reasonable evidence about hiring approaches based on HN hirers: What percentage of hires using your favourite technique/interview question do you think worked out as a success?

My rate is around 50% good, 50% I wish I hadn't hired.

Anyone else want to fess up?

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I've had a much better rate than that. What does "wish you hadn't hired" mean exactly. Did you completely misjudge them or did you have an idea of what you're getting and still hired them. To be way off on 50% of interviews feels like way too high failure rate.

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