the UX of that site is quite bad actually. arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn won't scroll the text, and the panel wants to resize horizontally when a person tries to engage the vertical scrollbar
Reading that part of the post leads me to conclude that Yegge is founding a startup called 'StampTown' or something similar as a talent incubator. Each candidate would have a digital avatar with suspenders that would display their accumulated stamps.
The decisions made by individual interviewers are extremely accurate if you realize they are just saying 'YES - I want this person hired' or 'NO - I don't want this person hired'. It's entirely subjective but likely very repeatable.
That gives the process low reliability. That's all that matters. If every interviewer is perfectly internally consistent (and they aren't even close), that wouldn't do anything to help the hiring process unless the hiring process took advantage of it.
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