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I’ll share my process: 1. The first interview must not be a technical assessment — identify shared interests, look for collaboration opportunities. You need to
by yuchi 8y ago
I’ll share my process:
1. The first interview must not be a technical assessment — identify shared interests, look for collaboration opportunities. You need to understand if the person in front of you will be someone you would work with for the next 10 years, their current technical skills have little to do with this.
2. At the end of the first interview, right before the logistic questions, assess how they position in the junior-senior axis — either with direct questions or by pushing them to the topic. Once you‘ve done that ask an evil surgically difficult question — the correctness of the answer is not what you‘re looking for: pay attention to how they present their (eventual) missing knowledge, or how the address the answer by giving context. A senior developer doesn’t know everything, but must know enough to manage gaps in their knowledge.
3. Search for young and talented people — search for the fire in their eyes. You want someone which, eventually, will reach goals by their own.
- dacur 8y agoSearch for young people? So discriminate?
- SturgeonsLaw 8y agoI read that charitably as "give newbies a chance"
- yuchi 8y agoYeah absolutely, it was in the context of the OP.
- Stratoscope 8y agoI really try hard to apply the principle of charity, but as a 67 year old developer who is still working, I'm afraid it's hard to read "search for young and talented people" without thinking of it as illegal age discrimination. That said, I do like the interviewing approach we're replying to, other than that "y" word... :-)
- stale2002 8y agoHey at least older people have laws that protect them. Did you know that it is perfectly legal to discriminate against young people? Yeah sucks to be them, I guess. Apparently nobody cares about discrimination against those people. Old people are among the richest people in the world. But I guess when things are made fair, and neither young or old people are discriminated against, that appears like "discrimination" against those who are now being treated fairly.