Moishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google
Etsy Eng (Etsy Engineering)
Why leaders watch it
A former Google hiring-committee member on what interviews can and can't predict and how to run fair hiring decisions.
Moishe Lettvin, a former Google engineer, shares lessons from 250 interviews and his time on the hiring committee. He tells how the committee given anonymized packets, including its own, would hire almost none of them.
Takeaways
- Hiring committees counter individual interviewer bias
- Interviews are noisy; decide on structured evidence
- Avoid false negatives that reject good candidates
Topics: Hiring & talent
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