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Do you make any attempt to interview for things are inherently subjective?

At least for some positions, personality and culture fit might be important.



It might be tricky if person A is a better fit than person B - but B is at least slightly more competent than A.

In that case - if we would decide in favor of A - I guess I would skip that reason.

But if you design the testing sufficiently broad - then you not just get a very good insights of where an applicant's strength lie but also enough "reasons" to give for negative decision - which also are helpful for the applicant to improve.




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