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I keep reading about how bad Google's interview process is. But has anyone done any proper large scale research on what is the best way to hire software engineers? All the comments here seems like opinions of people based on themselves and no one provides a proper alternative. Just curious!

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I've been hiring people for 10 years and far and away the best results (in order):

  1. I've worked with them before or they were referred by someone I trust
  2. Test project

Never had a good result from a question-based interview. I just don't have the numbers for it to work.

Think about it, if the probability of a random dev knowing your stupid questions is 1%, then you would need to interview 100 people to find that 1.

The only companies that can do that at scale are FAANG.

I like to give short term contracts to promising applicants. It filters both good and bad for different reasons but it works.

I feel like the most interested and serious candidates will be shut out by this.

I pay $100/hour and give them a week (but time boxed to 8 hours). They can do it in their off time.