To follow up from GPs point I’m in a similar situation and have been doing a lot of interviews recently. We are a fast growing startup, with under 20 people, an

To follow up from GPs point I’m in a similar situation and have been doing a lot of interviews recently. We are a fast growing startup, with under 20 people, and tight deadlines (from investors). A lot of the candidates we’ve interviewed just don’t have the experience working in that sort of environment. We don’t have time to write code perfectly at the moment with pairing, full test coverage, fully TDD, etc. Yes people can learn this, but if you come across as someone who will just spend all day conplaining about that I don’t want you on the team. Another thing is simple skills like turning up on time. We recently had a couple of on-site interviews (after phone calls) where the candidates turned up more than 30 minutes late, with no good excuse.