I don’t ever learn how good the people I rejected were!
Definitely agree this is a challenge and limits learning from hiring rounds. I don’t quite agree with the strength of this statement though. A great thing about the agency and tenacity of people in our community is that people often apply to a bunch of roles at similar organisations, and so you end up seeing what people you turned down work on from afar, and how well that goes. It seems reasonably informative to me to track which people end up doing great work at other orgs, and thinking through how much of that seems down to the role being different vs your hiring process having been a false negative, and thinking through what the process would have looked like to have avoided the false negative.
Definitely agree this is a challenge and limits learning from hiring rounds. I don’t quite agree with the strength of this statement though. A great thing about the agency and tenacity of people in our community is that people often apply to a bunch of roles at similar organisations, and so you end up seeing what people you turned down work on from afar, and how well that goes. It seems reasonably informative to me to track which people end up doing great work at other orgs, and thinking through how much of that seems down to the role being different vs your hiring process having been a false negative, and thinking through what the process would have looked like to have avoided the false negative.