We have people do a 30 minute presentation on anything they think we might find relevant. It is a really great way to start off a day of interviews with a candi

We have people do a 30 minute presentation on anything they think we might find relevant. It is a really great way to start off a day of interviews with a candidate. It is a great self-introduction and a great stimulus for meaningful interview questions. Our group hires people in the software+hardware+mechatronics space, and we look for people that bring diverse skills we don’t yet cover well. The kind of person we want can teach us something new in 30 minutes, and a good project for that could be backyard hackery or university research. Either is good. I totally love the format. (Then again, I am a “Talk is cheap. Show me a working (even if janky) robot.” kind of person.) Related, a former BioMed engineer coworker said Medtronic used a similar process - start the interview day with a presentation.