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Agree with this, but the thread doesn't really add anything to the discussion other than "hiring is a hard problem for both sides". People should upvote based on content, not the profile of the author.

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I think the interesting addition is his point that adding some amount of literal randomness to stages of the process would be a good thing, if the culture around interviewing could change to accept it

I think he's specifically alluding to doing something like Bayesian exploration/exploitation -- which would be very interesting. Unfortunately, you'd need to hire at huge scale to assess the outcome of the experiment, and - as he mentions - it would be hard to get hiring departments to accept.

I much prefer the approach also mentioned in that thread.

Here a hiring process was adjusted so that good current employees could actually pass the hiring process.

Of course that doesn't solve the issue on how to get the first few hires.

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