▲ | golly_ned 3 days ago | |||||||
Amazon did this, at least for a time, as part of a "No See, No Hear" hiring pilot program. The purpose was to see if they could hire university graduates with a minimum of human interviewing effort. They selected from a handful of universities, gave a couple online tests, verified the candidate's identity as the test-taker, then would give out offers sight-unseen. I was hired this way in 2015. From my perspective, I had taken a couple online tests, then months later had a thirty-minute identity verification call, then a couple months later, was sent a job offer. I thought it was by mistake, so I didn't ask too many questions. I had a thirty-minute call with a hiring manager I otherwise never interacted with, then accepted, flew internationally back to the states to Seattle to start, met him and all my teammates for the first time on my first day of work. I found the internal documents about this program later on spelunking in the internal wiki. | ||||||||
▲ | Leherenn 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you know what happened with the program and people hired this way? Was it generally successful? | ||||||||
▲ | spydum 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
that is wild! I could certainly see this as an attempt to eliminate hiring bias maybe? that was super popular in that time frame, but never heard anybody taking it that far. | ||||||||
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