>Something about your interview process makes a surprising number of people unable to perform at their normal level – from nervousness, unrealistic and artifici

>Something about your interview process makes a surprising number of people unable to perform at their normal level – from nervousness, unrealistic and artificial constraints, etc. I've worked with people who crashed and burned during the interview during nervousness and then went on to do okay afterwards. I'm a believer in trying to make the interview process as close an analog of day to day work as possible and as low key as possible. That means real, actually encountered problems (no fizzbuzz), and a progressive ramping up of the difficulty so that candidates with confidence problems can have a few easy problems to get over their anxiety with before getting into something meaty.