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How One Bad Interview Process Cost 10 Million Dollars
Episode 14 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dissect a 2024 forensic analysis by the corporate-training firm Braintrust that tracked 68 failed executive hires across 40 companies. The average cost per failed VP-level hire: $1.4 million in direct costs — severance, recruiter fees, productivity losses. But the real shocker is that 70 percent of those failures could have been caught before the second interview. Lucas walks through the specific red flags that Braintrust found: structured scorecards ignored, reference calls skipped, cultural-fit questions avoided. Luna pushes back on…
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