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You can get all the same benefits by firing people who don't work out. Optimizing for zero false positives mean you miss a lot of people who would have been great but were rejected in the name of zero false-positives. Startups can't handle having someone bad be hired early on, because even if they're fired later they've still done a lot of damage. Big companies don't have to worry about that.


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