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What makes you think google hasn't tried your solution, among others?

Google spends a large amount of time, energy, and money trying to figure out the best ways to hire candidates that are "fit", and tries numerous things (simultaneously, in fact) past "asking stress problems". The fact that most people go through the current interview process (which, btw, has visibly changed in the 6.5 years i've been there) does not mean they don't experiment, or use alternative methods. It's simply the most common.

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The people adjusting the hiring process are those that passed it. It is a filtering system that picks out a particular type of person and reinforces it. I find it hard to believe that it will change in any way that adjusts the filtering system. People at Google might experiment, but it will be within the orthodoxies, e.g., choosing between hybrid or gasoline vehicles, rather than considering mass transit.

Err, no they aren't, because they aren't all (or even mostly, AFAIK) engineers. It's certainly not the case that engineering and other positions have the same interview process.

I would also qualify that as "Google spends a large amount of time, energy, and money trying to figure out the best ways to hire candidates AT SCALE"

There are literally millions of resumes being submitted every year, and the cost of a false positive is high (saying "yes" to a bad hire is generally much worse than saying NO to a fantastic hire).

You are correct, I don't know and was perhaps overgeneralizing based on the belief that the parent was accurately representing his/her experience as common.

What can you tell me about how the process in your experience has changed in the last six years? Experiments, even social ones, have little value unless their results are shared! ;-)

I'm always looking to improve my HR skills. Hiring is so hard. It's my opinion that one of the reasons it is so hard is (primarily?) because of all the subterfuge/deception involved by both parties of the transaction. I wonder whether the experience of successful dating services have any insights to offer? Seems like a similar problem but without the messiness of physical attraction to get in the way.

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