Wave is trying to do a much easier assessment than EA orgs mostly are; lots of people have thoughts about hire to software engineers, and software engineering is a well established industry with lots of established wisdom about how orgs should be structured. EA jobs often have much less precedent and so we shouldn’t be surprised that we don’t know how to figure out as efficiently whether people are likely to be good fits.
Wave is trying to do a much easier assessment than EA orgs mostly are; lots of people have thoughts about hire to software engineers, and software engineering is a well established industry with lots of established wisdom about how orgs should be structured. EA jobs often have much less precedent and so we shouldn’t be surprised that we don’t know how to figure out as efficiently whether people are likely to be good fits.