Bayesian Inference for Hiring Engineers
Am I the only person getting progressively more creeped out by the series of bizarre, unsourced, pseudo-scientific ads TripleByte has been running?<p>On Reddit right now they&#x27;re running this weird faux-linear-algebra thing where they imply that they can build a vector of your skills vs. a vector of job requirements and get a meaningful answer via the dot product.<p>Which is a bit like saying you can predict the weather by taking the dot product of a vector of ocean and air. What even are the units? What does any of this even mean?<p>Hiring is a challenging, multi-dimensional thing. It involves a high-risk and ideally informed decision by multiple parties. Doing it effectively is hard. Doing it effectively and respectfully is harder still. And yet TripleByte comes in and says, &quot;We sound vaguely like machine learning. We got this.&quot;<p>Honestly, they make HackerRank, which was another extremely sketchy organization making a lot of very questionable decisions, look reasonable by comparison.