In this blog, you will find simple and actionable tips and tricks for conducting tech interviews, designing and preparing the tech interview process and developing a great candidate experience. Follow us on LinkedIn for daily interviewing best practices.
Kat has prepared 500+ interviews, and has conducted 750+ technical interviews herself. She leads technical interviewer trainings for hiring manager and in-house tech team members who will be the ones interviewing their future colleagues. She was the CTO of 2 startups after having a decade-long career in Machine Learning and software engineering.
Kat Stam
Blog Author and Principal Tech Interviewer
Every engineering interview has a hidden cost most companies ignore: lost developer productivity. As engineers are pulled away from building to interview candidates, product delivery slows down, context switching increases, and teams quietly lose momentum.
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Here is a useful list of things to do when preparing for a video interview. This piece applies both to the interviewers, who want to act professionally, and to the candidates, who want to make a great first impression.
Hiring the best top tech talent starts even before the interviews have began. It starts with writing a great and effective job description which lists the required and desired tech and soft skills a successful candidate should have.
Live coding tasks during technical interviews should neither be too long, nor too complicated. Here is a list of simple steps to follow to design the ultimate tech challenge - one which will help you uncover the skills you your best candidates.
When hiring, companies prefer to keep the technical interviewing in-house. This means that they select developers from their teams to interview the applicants who have reached to the tech assessment stage. Here is the hidden cost of that in terms of man hours.
Here is a list of best practices our team of professional tech interviewers compiled after conducting more than 1000+ technical assessments. These practices are useful to both technical and non-technical professionals.
Many struggle with providing feedback after technical interviews. It may be because it feels time-consuming, difficult to send, or hard to come up with. Here is how to write the interview feedback in less than 10 minutes and send it to the candidate.