The Hardest Interview2 -

For a company like Google or Bridgewater Associates, the cost of a "false positive" (hiring someone who is incompetent or toxic) is astronomical. It costs the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary, severance, training, and lost productivity. Conversely, the cost of a "false negative" (rejecting a great candidate) is relatively low because the talent pool is vast.

The difficulty here is . It is easy to maintain a facade for 45 minutes. It is nearly impossible to maintain a fabricated narrative for six hours under the scrutiny of five different behavioral psychologists and senior engineers. The interviewer is hunting for contradictions. One slip in a story told twice, and the "Bar Raiser" (a specially trained employee tasked with maintaining hiring standards) will vote to reject. the hardest interview2

Never dismiss an interviewer's critique. For a company like Google or Bridgewater Associates,