Hiring for tech jobs is broken
Henry Kirk, a cofounder of the software development company Studio Init, wants to hire the best engineers. “They still cheated,” he tells me. “It was so obvious,” Kirk says. They gave delayed answers or copied and pasted full blocks of code into the system instead of typing step-by-step. “It’s a waste of our time,” he says. “I’m a small company. I have 400 applicants. How do I screen the people down to a manageable chunk of folks?...