I'm not a regular interviewer but I've been on a panel for a few recently. For one job in particular the standout candidate on paper gave the worst interview I have ever seen.
He was arrogant, confrontational, couldn't answer simple questions and was half an hour late - and not apologetic at all. He was just weirdly and inexplicably unpleasant to everyone.
Perhaps he would have been great in some role or would have aced a psychological test .. but I'm glad we did an interview so we could reject him out of hand.
I'm sure there is a place for widespread empirical evaluations .. but ultimately if you are employing someone to work with you there has to be space to say: "Err, No! - I don't care what the computer says".
He was arrogant, confrontational, couldn't answer simple questions and was half an hour late - and not apologetic at all. He was just weirdly and inexplicably unpleasant to everyone.
Perhaps he would have been great in some role or would have aced a psychological test .. but I'm glad we did an interview so we could reject him out of hand.
I'm sure there is a place for widespread empirical evaluations .. but ultimately if you are employing someone to work with you there has to be space to say: "Err, No! - I don't care what the computer says".