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You make a good point. In practice, we've not found a reliable way to weed out the false positives that result (I would not characterize it as an "explosion", but there are definitely some). However, we've stuck with this process because we firmly believe that the benefits of having the excellent people we've hired who would not have passed a standard interview outweigh the costs of getting rid of the others.


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