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You can never truly get rid of false negatives efficiently. However, false negatives are orders of magnitude better than false positives. So just try to minimize false positives and try not to lose sleep on the false negatives.

Agreed. It's especially important for smaller companies where each hire has a big impact. You're trying to minimize risk and have a good to great hire (technically and culturally), not hire the absolute best.

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