Interviewing job candidates to find out who you should hire (without careful training and planning) is just... bad. It exacerbates bias against minorities, and it results in worse assessments of candidates than just testing, as well as extreme overconfidence in bad choices. 1/4

This study shows how crazy unstructured interviews are: people rated interviews where the candidates gave RANDOM "yes" or "no" answers to questions as having the same quality as ones with real answers! People are really bad at assessing candidate quality from conversations. 2/4

This classic paper shows how interviews "for fit" are basically just a test on how alike the interviewer the candidate are. 3/4 https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1225483809224679424

All of this criticism is about unstructured interviews. There are ways to do interviews that result in better outcomes, but you have to be deliberate and careful in planning and executing. Here's a good start: 4/4 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/smarter-living/how-to-fix-job-interviews-tips.html