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pXMzR2A on April 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Google Hires

> weeds out those that may need a lot of hand holding early on.

i.e. You are using interviews in order to avoid paid in-house training.

ryen on April 8, 2015 [–]

True, but theres a difference between paid in-house training and being able to investigate problems on your own without constantly bothering everyone on the team to do your thinking.

The latter is a candidate I try to avoid like the plague.

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