[mdcds]

People and jobs are non-fungible: no two candidates are identical, no two jobs are the same.

Bid/ask spreads make sense to me only in situations when fungible units of A are traded for fungible units of B.

[janalsncm]

I don’t want to defend the idea as an actual product too much because I’m mainly interested in it as an experiment. It would be revealing to have a “God’s eye” view of the labor market even if it has an asterisk.

If people and jobs were fungible you’d be able to skip the interview process too. I definitely agree that it’s imperfect though. Maybe with some filtering it would be possible to narrow down candidates qualified enough for an interview.

[b20000]

if that is true then why does everyone need to do bullshit coding interviews instead of being hired for their projects and experience, degrees and track record?

[jfrisby]

Because employers _want_ people to be fungible. The quest to quantify and systematize hiring is a Quixotic effort at solving real challenges, but it persists because nobody has come up with an actual solution.

[jononomo]

perfect response to what at first sounds like a good idea.