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Can anyone recommend a good book on becoming a better technical interviewer? I’ve found plenty of books on being a better interview candidate, and a few for hir

Can anyone recommend a good book on becoming a better technical interviewer? I’ve found plenty of books on being a better interview candidate, and a few for hiring ceos or sales people, but I haven’t been able to find anything with useful suggestions for the hiring side of the table in a tech interview.

jsjohnst 7y ago
While I can’t recommend a specific book off hand, I’d suggest looking into books in the realm of profiling. Technics I’ve read in that area made the biggest improvement in my overall ability to interview engineering candidates.
- Ozzie_osman 7y ago
  Me and over a dozen other contributors are working on a Guide [1] to Technical Hiring and Recruiting that's due out this fall (published by Holloway). Alex Allain (author of this blog post) is actually a contributing author and wrote our section on interviewing. If you're curious enough, and willing to spend time reviewing an early draft and giving feedback, please use the contact us link on Holloway.com. [1] https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about
- wool_gather 7y ago
  Could you be more specific about the kind of profiling you mean? My assumption is software performance profiling, but I'm not sure if that makes sense. The other kind that occurs to me is law enforcement profiling, but that makes even less sense to me. I think there's a use of the word that I'm missing to understand your comment.
alexallain 7y ago
(original author here) I got inspired to write this post after helping contribute a few chapters to The Holloway Guide to Technical Interviewing and Recruiting, which is in early access and has a more material that might be interesting+relevant to you: https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about (It goes beyond just interviewing, as well, to cover the whole hiring process end-to-end)

jsjohnst 7y ago

While I can’t recommend a specific book off hand, I’d suggest looking into books in the realm of profiling. Technics I’ve read in that area made the biggest improvement in my overall ability to interview engineering candidates.

Ozzie_osman 7y ago
Me and over a dozen other contributors are working on a Guide [1] to Technical Hiring and Recruiting that's due out this fall (published by Holloway). Alex Allain (author of this blog post) is actually a contributing author and wrote our section on interviewing. If you're curious enough, and willing to spend time reviewing an early draft and giving feedback, please use the contact us link on Holloway.com. [1] https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about
wool_gather 7y ago
Could you be more specific about the kind of profiling you mean? My assumption is software performance profiling, but I'm not sure if that makes sense. The other kind that occurs to me is law enforcement profiling, but that makes even less sense to me. I think there's a use of the word that I'm missing to understand your comment.

alexallain 7y ago

(original author here) I got inspired to write this post after helping contribute a few chapters to The Holloway Guide to Technical Interviewing and Recruiting, which is in early access and has a more material that might be interesting+relevant to you: https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about (It goes beyond just interviewing, as well, to cover the whole hiring process end-to-end)