One thing to keep in mind: If you sample by interview rather than by candidate—which is how an interviewer sees the world—the worst candidates will be massively overrepresented, because they have to do way more interviews to get a job (and then again when they fail to keep it.)
(This isn’t an original insight—it was pointed out to me by an essay, probably by Joel Spolsky or one of the similar bloggers of his era.)
One thing to keep in mind: If you sample by interview rather than by candidate—which is how an interviewer sees the world—the worst candidates will be massively overrepresented, because they have to do way more interviews to get a job (and then again when they fail to keep it.)
(This isn’t an original insight—it was pointed out to me by an essay, probably by Joel Spolsky or one of the similar bloggers of his era.)
(EDIT: found it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/ )
That’s an interesting insight, thanks!