Managing Up

How Do You Assess Technical Ability in Interviews?

May 29, 2019

40:11

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Hiring Based on Gut Feel or How Much Fun the Interview Is

04:48

Technical Interviews Are Looking for Elimination Criteria

03:48

Interview Process - Is This Really Important?

02:58

Introduction

4min

Interview Process - Is This Really Important?

3min

Do You Hate Takehome Tests?

4min

Technical Interviews Are Looking for Elimination Criteria

4min

Meta Programming

2min

How Do You Handle the Desperate Variety of Personality Types in an Interview?

3min

What Strength Do You Want to Surface in the Interview Process?

5min

Interview Process

2min

I Liked My Job Interview

5min

10.

Hiring Based on Gut Feel or How Much Fun the Interview Is

5min

11.

Finding the Right Ingredients for Your Perfect Team

3min

12.

Is There Still Room in the World for Heretics?

2min

Nick, Travis, and Brandon explore how they've tried to improve at assessing the technical abilities of potential hires during the interview process. They talk take-home tests, pair programming exercises, and Nick shares a technique that has worked better for his teams than either of those.

Notes:

Yahtzee problem
- http://codingdojo.org/kata/Yahtzee/
Trek Glowacki: "Tired: Engineering Interviews; Hired: Engineering Auditions"
- https://medium.com/@trek/tired-engineering-interviews-hired-engineering-auditions-5f9f00147a57
Kevin Goldsmith: The right ingredients for your perfect team
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCYxM9z1dEp
Kevin Goldsmith: Let's build a product development organization (workshop)
- https://www.slideshare.net/kevingoldsmith/lets-build-a-product-development-organization