The only cases I see where I deviated heavily from the process and it went well was when I had worked extensively with the person before and knew them quite well
Do you think this basically supports “hiring people you know to be good” and using your network and previous interactions with people not in an interview setting to seek out good candidates?
Yeah, I think it provides some evidence in favor of it, but there are lots of downsides to that too, like:
Obviously, there is risk a bias, etc. (e.g. I know a small subset of possible people!)
Lots of times, I don’t actually know someone who would be a particularly good fit.
I think that doing this is lower downside risk, but probably somewhat lower upside potential in expectation, and probably just varies case-to-case in how those shake out overall.
Nice comment. One follow-up.
Do you think this basically supports “hiring people you know to be good” and using your network and previous interactions with people not in an interview setting to seek out good candidates?
Yeah, I think it provides some evidence in favor of it, but there are lots of downsides to that too, like:
Obviously, there is risk a bias, etc. (e.g. I know a small subset of possible people!)
Lots of times, I don’t actually know someone who would be a particularly good fit.
I think that doing this is lower downside risk, but probably somewhat lower upside potential in expectation, and probably just varies case-to-case in how those shake out overall.