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The Hidden Cost of Engineering Interviews: How Hiring Slows Down Product Delivery
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.
Video Interview Essentials
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.