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To be more generous, they hire fantastically bright people, but they do not give candidates an ethics quiz, nor would it even be possible to construct a non-gameable filter.

This likely goes for any company that grows from small to giant: early on, you hire people you know and trust, or that your (trustworthy) employees know and trust. But when you're deluged with applicants, you hire people who can solve leetcode hards in 30 minutes.



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