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.
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.
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.
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.
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.