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Ask HN: You get 30 minutes to do a phone screen. What do you ask?
I've been doing quite a few phone screens lately, and am looking for tips to help improve the outcome of this stage. What are the most effective ways to structure a phone screen? What to and what not to ask? Joel's blog post (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/24/the-phone-screen-2/) has been a rough guide for me so far. Since this was written a while ago, what would you change if anything?
- rajacombinator 9y agoHis advice seems pretty good and timeless, what makes you think it needs an update? I’d say a little less sperging out on technical nitpicks (who thinks about pointers anymore, why does a trivial social media site think about them) and also his technical question sounds way too complex to tackle as part of a 30 min interview. It’s a bit of reverse “imposter syndrome” as the millennials call it. Just try to get some sense of the person’s communication ability and thinking process by asking them about their resume.