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I imagine using a bar raiser increases the randomness of the interview process at Amazon, as it effectively reduces the number of interviewers down to one in th
by codex 13y ago
I imagine using a bar raiser increases the randomness of the interview process at Amazon, as it effectively reduces the number of interviewers down to one in the veto case. Thus, more noise. However, reducing the false negative rate isn't a high priority in most organizations, and Amazon is so desperate for employees that you often see the same person interview multiple times until they get in, so perhaps it doesn't matter.
- ignoramous 13y agoThe last part may be true. I have first-hand experience of this... Amazon does tend to "recycle" candidates, and likes to give candidates that came close to a "hire" or candidates that were unlucky and perhaps had a "anti interview loop" (as Steve Yeggie would put it) of sorts a second, or a third, or a fourth chance even.
- rhizome 13y agoAmazon is so desperate for employees that you often see the same person interview multiple times until they get in This doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't they hire them first time around if they were truly desperate?
- codex 13y agoBecause the interview process is structured to "raise the bar" but is also highly random. As with any tech company, you have to run the gauntlet to get a hire. It's politically easier to have candidates reinterview when they fail rather than get permission from executives to "lower the bar."
- rhizome 13y agoOK, I get that, but this assumes that their politics are not affected by their desperation, right?