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I'm glad there are so many posts like this these days which highlight the ridiculous de-facto process companies use to hire engineers. I've been on both sides of the interviewing process and the lesson is that startups that avoid using this process will gain an advantage on the ones that continue to.

Really quality people are HARD to find. If you send people a pop quiz about probabilities and then some random brain teaser puzzle algo to solve in 30 mins you're gonna lose eventually because your competitors will have the actual quality people.



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