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> I swear sometimes it might just be easier or even fairer to throw all resumes/applications in the air and see which ones land inside of a predetermined circle.

When I was a responsible for hiring interns, we used to joke about this all the time. Just throw away 75% of applicants, everyone that got thrown out is unlucky, and we don't want unlucky people bringing the company down.

Yes, but that would destroy the illusion of a meritocracy and the idea that these companies are basing their hiring decisions on rational, objective metrics and not simply making it up as they go along.

Steve Yegge made that observation many years ago regarding Google. For every person working at Google, there is a panel of interviewers that would have rejected that person.

The Monte Carlo hiring technique?