Giving Technical Interviews

A few interview patterns for tech:

• Should take ~10% of your time: you probably are leaving talent on the table if you are not constantly looking

• Know thy candidate: don’t ask a python variable question to a person who’s been programing for 30 years and don’t expect a college jr. to know how memory cache misses work.

• Be uniform in interviewing: have at least 30% of your questions the same across candidates to make sure you are comparing apple-to-apples

• Always Sell the position: the best need to feel they are joining an enthusiastic team. Make sure to explicitly state your best features.

Yes, finding good candidates is like finding gold.