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Yes to 2, but when we tried harder questions (the kind of thing you'd see in a TrendCo phone screen), everyone failed (experienced candidates often fail these everywhere and we weren't trendy enough to get new grads who were going for jobs where you'd have to prep for interviews)
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For grads, we got a lot of mileage out of hiring many interns with using a weak screening criteria and then giving roughly half of them full-time offers. For experienced candidates, we were known as a good place to work around town, very easy to fill those slots with referrals.
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Internship programs are highly underrated! Big fan of biasing heavily towards "hire" for serious referrals. It's inbounds where I mercilessly applied fizzbuzz type questions to phone screens. I get the sense that you think this was a mistake?
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