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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 350+ interviews, and has conducted more than 600 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.

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Get the Job Description Right to Hire Top Tech Talent

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.

Posted by Kat Stam | August 29, 2024

How to design the ultimate live coding task for tech interviews

Design a live coding task in 4 simple steps

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.

Posted by Kat Stam | August 22, 2024

save 25 man hours at the tech interview stage

How to save 25 man-hours at tech interview stage

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.

Posted by Kat Stam | July 10, 2024

Best Practices for Tech Interviewers

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.

Posted by Kat Stam | June 25, 2024

Technical Interview Feedback How To

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.

Posted by Kat Stam | June 13, 2024

How to help candidates relaxed when nervous during an interview

Here is how to help a nervous candidate relax during the interview

Interviews are stressful, even for the most confident candidates. We, interviewers, though need the candidates to relax and feel comfortable so they shine and make our job easy when selecting the perfect fit for the job opening. Here is how to create a welcoming environment during the interview so the candidates feel like they take part of an interesting conversation.

Posted by Kat Stam | June 6, 2024

3 common tech interview formats

Every single tech candidate passes though an assessment - of their skills and knowledge. Here are the 3 most common formats tech interviewers, or interview engineers, follow to structure the tech assessment.

Posted by Kat Stam | May 29, 2024

Practical tips: design a rock-solid interview process for your tech job openings

Long and impractical interview process cost money and put off the best candidates from applying. Here is how to design a 3-stage light-weight technical interview process which saves money, saves candidates time and finds the right fit for the job.

Posted by Kat Stam | May 27, 2024

The 7 worst mistakes to make as an interviewer while recruiting

When candidates make mistakes during an interview, they don't get the job. When companies make mistakes during an interview, they hire the wrong people, waste their best people's time, decrease productivity, lose money, and maybe, have to replace the new hire 6 months after their start date. Here are the top 7 mistakes to avoid when interviewing candidates.

Posted by Kat Stam | May 22, 2024