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An engineer's perspective on hiring

hiring in tech is broken and everyone knows it. what can we do better?

i think it makes sense in environments where the candidate has a very strong recommendation and there's little competition for the position; or if you have some other reason to highly value their skills without a formal assessment. i have not gone through this process, but based on the questions and my knowledge of who gets hired at oxide, i would expect just the written work to take at around 5-15 hours of time for a single application. having the applicant collaborate on both sides (reviewing and authoring) shows you a lot about how they work, and signals to them that you care about more than the equivalent of their SAT score.

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