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You've spent a lot of time preparing for this moment. Your palms are sweaty. You take a deep breath, walk into the room, and shake hands with the candidate. Welcome to the interview!
Interviewing can be intimidating and our industry is notorious for interviews that are arbitrary, academic, and adversarial. How can we do better?
Come be a fly on the wall for a real interview! At [redacted], we've put a lot of thought into crafting an interview that is both humane and allows us to accurately capture a candidate's strengths and weaknesses relative to the real-life work they will be doing.
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This presentation is aimed primarily at developers who are interviewers at their companies as well as anyone involved in designing or improving a company's interview process.
We are taking a "show don't tell" approach of showing a live (mock) interview between the two speakers. While the focus of the presentation is the interview, there may be some brief editorializing or a short wrap up at the end depending on how much we can put into the dialogue while keeping it natural.
The audience should leave with inspiration for what a good interview could look like and equipped with some ideas on how to be better interviewers themselves.
To keep the talk anonymous, I've replaced our company name with [redacted]. You can replace it with the real name from our bios after the blind round.
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The software industry is notorious for job interviews that are arbitrary, academic, and adversarial. Many software developers are involved in the interview process and most are bad at it.
There is a better way to do things. At [redacted], we've put a lot of thought into crafting our interview process, focusing on both the content and how it is delivered. We want the interview experience to be both humane and practical. That is, the interview is first and foremost about people. Our goal as interviewers is to help people show their best selves. The interview should also closely resemble the actual responsibilities required by the position.
The format of this presentation is unique. Instead of just talking about how to make interviews better, we're going to demonstrate it. This will appeal to the audience and hopefully give them ideas on how to improve their own interviewing approaches.